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"Riding an Archer in space, at zero-G, is different from this..." Things were a bit less strained, after that, through the skimpy meal, with its special devices, unique to the asteroids and their tiny gravity. Clamps to fasten plates to tables and victuals to plates. Drinking vessels that were half-squeeze bottles.
What marvelous places of abode such little planets would be if it were possible to believe them inhabited, we shall see more clearly when we come to consider them in their turn. But without regard to the question of habitability, the asteroids will be found extremely interesting.
"I love being out late. I hope there will be a moon, and that there won't be many clouds in the sky, for I want to examine the position of some of the planets. Did I tell you, Alice, that Uncle John has a telescope through which I can see the asteroids?" "What on earth are they?" cried Alice, yawning as she spoke. "Oh, the very small planets." "Then, my dear, I hope you will see them.
She was seated in a corner of the room with two or three little girls around her, and was dressing dolls. "Do you enjoy that?" he asked, incredulously. "I'm not a star," she replied looking up with a quiet smile, "but only a planet one of the smaller asteroids and shine with borrowed light. These little women enjoy this hugely; and I receive a pale reflection of their pleasure."
With these units they could reach the asteroids. With these units, they could range as far out as Pluto without fear of consequences without, Mike added to himself, even the fear of radiation that was a constant threat to them here, for the farther from the sun they went, the less radiation they would have to endure. The three months would be extended.
"Part of an ancient planet that was destroyed before the time of man, or life on Earth. The planet got too near the sun when its orbit was irregular, and old Sol pulled it to pieces. This is one of the pieces. The other asteroids are the rest. All planetary surfaces are made up of great blocks; they aren't continuous, you know.
"If it were not for the fact that there are solid asteroids of iron out beyond Mars, I would say that somebody wanted iron badly enough to wipe out the fleets and the planetoid to get it. But anyway, whoever they were, they carried enough power so that our armament didn't bother them at all.
A reproduction is given of photographed spectra of the four outermost planets, showing a great number of new lines and bands; intensification of hydrogen F. and C. lines; a steady increase of effects and as we pass from Jupiter and Saturn to Uranus, and a still greater increase in Neptune. Asteroids. The discovery of these new planets has been described.
In the case of a large planet alternating expanses of land and water, or of vegetation and desert, would produce a notable variation in the amount of reflection, but on bodies of the size of the asteroids neither water nor vegetation could exist, and an atmosphere would be equally impossible.
I think you must come from Venus, or one of the asteroids; or it may be from Sirius. From the beginning you knew you were not like ordinary people." "Alexis," she drawled, "you are boring me." "Capital!" said Sarakoff. "Now we will descend to facts, as our friend here did. You are the most inordinately vain, ambitious, cold-hearted woman in Europe, Leonora. You value yourself before everything.
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