INFORMATION ON SOVIET BLOC INTERNATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL COOPERATION -- 1960

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October 28, 1960
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SOVIET-BLOC ACTIVI'r?"Ir,"
'rFibir!rot' Crntr,ntt:
1. GENERAL
II. ROCKETS AND ARTIFICIAL EARTH SATELLITES
III. UPPER ATMOSP}{ERE it
V. ' METEOROLOGY
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V.
OCEANOGRAPHY
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VI.
ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC
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G!NERAL
Czncho Produce It Portable Quartr,Sernioonductor Clnek
A portable quartz aorniconductor clock line boon dccigned by work-
ore of the mutilate of Radio Technology of the Czochocilovak Academy of
Sciences under the direction of Engineer Tolman. It will not only
operate from a power-supply network, but also on a battery hot:dod in
the body of the in:rtrumont with the clock meth+inicnn. This design make.:
it poecible to uue the instrument either inuide or under field condi-
tionw. The clock weighs, 17.9 kg, including the weight of the battery.
The current consumption Li 1, kwh, Despite its small weight and sizo
the clock provided maximurn accuracy in time meatjuremont the maximum
poeoit)le deviation in one year ire 1 second.
The quartz clock ici urged primarily in aetronumy and geodeoy awl
also in laboratovie;J whore c;reat accuracy in time me:unuremo~n't io caw Ew-
tial. (Taken from "Czechoe.ovakia 1960," Inf'ormai,iut. BulltAin of t e
Czechoulovakian Exhioition in Moecow.) ("Quartz Semiconductor Clock,"
Priroda, No. 7, 1060, p. 117)
flew Soviet Periodical "(ieoloa rind (.'poop vsics"
The first number of the new journal "Geology and Geophysics" ha,:
now been issued. This monthly publication of the Siberian Divicion of
the Academy of Sciences of the USSR is edited by A^ademicijtn A. A.
Trofimuk. The subject motter will be confined la.ge'!y to g. eiogical
P..--d geophysical papers relat3.ng to Siberia.
The announcement of this new publication is accompanied by a
-table of contents for the first number. ("On the Journal 'Geology
atzd Geophysics,' No. 1, 1960," Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriyn
Geologicheskaya, No. S, 1960, p. 101)
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11. IIOCKETS AND AFTTIPIC IAL LARTII ATrLL I'rl?:s
Caricl.ur :1 nrnwn ('rum C?ra`h_ 3t,ucly oL' MeteorIto .Shower
it In the npr1 u1; of 105.a a uh war of mcteoritoo c:ccurr od near
13rzhibru.m (C:re(.,houlorakia); thin p enomenon in helping to provide,,
certain data which are lanportunt 1' r the nplution of the problem of
rotur,'n of' npaco vehicles to Earth. 'I'hiu wan the f'irut case when ob-
aervationu of a uhowor of tneteorit u wan made from Wo point: by the
use of a camera with rotary uhutto r.
"On the basin of such data the total tnasu of the meteorites
fulling to Earth, their specific g -vity, the velocity of meteoric
flight through the atrno rphere, bra ng, change in path, and several
other criteria, important !nformat n was derived relative to the
aerodynamic heating of these bod,ie' at a velocity of 21 km/sec. Com-
putationa have shown that of the i tial meteorite mass of 6.6 tons
only 0.1/,% remained after purasuge Ahrough the atmosphere.
"If we take this result as basis for other considerations,
then with the penetration of a cosu c rocket into the Earth's atmos-
phere in a vertical direction, but t a lesser flight velocity (11.2
knVsec), we may conclude that a ro, et of a material similar to that
In the meteorites would be 75% bur d up enroute and only one-quartor
"Meteorites Help Astronautics,"
Pr it oda, No. 7, 1960, p. 116) CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
The Physical and Mental Demands Facing Cosmonauts
A recent article appearing in Sinena is a rather superficial
commentary on the physical and mental demands facing the first space
travellers. An effort is made to indicate that Russians are better
prepared physically to subject themselves to these demands than are
others. A potential, candidate for space travel must be in superb
physical condition, he must have the training of an athlete, and he
must have all the assistance offered by cosmic psychology. ("What
Should a Cosmonaut Be Like?" by R. FFodol'nyy and V. Sazhin, Smena,
No. 17, September 1960, pp. 2-3)
Seienne and Propaganda
There are two types of articles on space technology to be found
in the Soviet press -- feature articles of a high scientific order and
those interlarded with unfavorable commentary directed against the capi-
talist world. The titles of these articles are often no clue to their
actual contents or scientific value.
Thus, Professor G. Pokrovskiy, writing at some length in a re-
cent issue of Ekonomicheskayvu .a e a, ostensibly in a review of Soviet
space achievements during the last three years, expends a great amount
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of vcrbiu& in dofamltit, the United Stateu and other -. pitalEj'
t xampiu: 'The American t ovorsnent 0 not Jo much :Ji
rasui ti un
lar for eau
tries, Th
in closely
;super-prof
Second Wor
E r the ability to uue apace for military
,i nage againot the Soviet Union and other
apid development of apace technology in
r lated to the de a ire of the monopol ie:i t'.
t ...the United Statee not only did not m
d War but grow rich on military order.-."
Such art clew may contain information of ucientifie v.iue, .u
the prouent article, other than reviewing Soviet achie;?mint durir.: ;.'
last three yearn, door not. ("Man, Technology and Space," by Profewsor
0. Pokrovukiy, Ekonomicheukaya Gazeta, 27 September l960, pp. -:)
unpr"C+y'd me
Ter during t :^
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III. UPPER AMOSIPIMME
Voata.u''j Article' on Work tat the .ihtevnberg Ob:aervalt,oaaryJ
A recent article in the E:konornicheokava C ; otn de cribr_.: t:ie wur1
of ra:itr?~ar;ru,~a.rs at the P. K. Shtornberg Obsor,;ovary. 1L includr~a; an In
ter; Lew with astrononor Tamara Petrov.= as she uJoJ an a: trornc!.ric a;itro-
graph to photograph nebulae. Her ;cork at the momeait was objer?ration and
photographing of nebula "128" with an "AFR-1" astrograph. (:"h i ; in:;tru-
n; nt ic; pre::au.i ably that in the lame photograph accompanying ths
article.) The twt,~-orncrnical telescope is moved autoratically with a clock
rr;echara:um but the ob.;erier rr:ujt remain glued to the eyepiece and hold
the iragc in the cros s-heir;;. The nebula "128" is being photographed
for inclusion in a catalogue of faint atar:a.
In another pa~rilion a zenith-'telescope was being u:;ed fcr obderva-
tions of change in latitude.
:he article doacribes the types of work done at the observatory,
Ito publications, facilities and equipment: a manner of pe::;onalities arcs
meebntionod. ("tight with the Stars," by A, Presnyakc?;, Ekoncmicheskaya
Gu eta, 14 September l?60. P. 4)
Pulkovo Astronomer Dircu.-,acs the `uclouc of Our Galaxy
Yu. N. Paris; skiy of the Main Astronomical 0bzervatt ? at Pulko io
is the author of a recent article in Prirode.. We uote: 'As a result
+; s the t hemp c s article, but he doe, not expand
on it to any C. -cat extent. (' Ncw Ir.fcration on the Nucleus of air Gaal-
a )j," by fu. N. Pariyskiy, Priroda, No. 7, 1960, pp. 5--52)
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
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Another Pulkovo Actronorier Comments on Radioastronorty
A brief article in I :':esti carries an inter. ie'v with Professor
S. G. Knaykin, Doctor of Physical-Mathematical Sciences, a famed Russian
radioph;;.,lc..,t. Little of :substance is contained in hi remarks: a Pew
;'acts abc,ut the development of radioastr onomy as a s, ience, mention of
this dioco-rery of the radioradiation of interstellar hydrogen, and radio-
r'adiatio n of waste material from supernovae. This science, he concludes,
ha a far greater '"r eac'.a' ' {inL^, Lh_ .a. n{ to s? t ~es a
s~ ., _ h._n 1 optical strenerr*,,?.
(The phot: graph shows a r adioastr onomical unit, at Pu.:.kovo.) ("As,tronoi. J
Plus Radiophyolc.:," I::ve.ti;,?a, 21 September 1?d0, p. 3)
of the prozessing of data provided by the Pulkovo rad o el scope, we
ha ; c found that the most intense radiation comes Cron a v.. small and
unusually dense cloud of ionized gas precisely in the cent r of the Gal-
ar;f and constituting the real nucleus, of the Galaxy. Its ia..'ceter is
about 20 li ht years that is 35,000 times leas than the iameter of
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I1,, jc,rt rm h,:rtorratill M~rt;rnrit1c' (t'nL irrr on ;irrtremitrrr Tnrlr:rad
A ttix-I)agr; rit,t:IC:LU in a recent issue of Pr:i;rod-a providers what uwy
bd the bout overall d;lueucsian of the meteorite ::raters found on Stutrcnnau
Itslund off the Estonian uoraut, They are said to be the only such phe-
nomena in Europe in uueh an excellent uLate of preservation,
~ho Kaaliyurv group) cotwwiutt7 Of coven cratoru in an area of about
0.75 km , (Figure 1 is an orientation map, Figure 2 shows the arrange-
ment of the crater- at the site, Figure 3 is a sketch of the largest
orator.) The largest crater is completely round, with a diameter of
110 in; the wall of earth thrown up around the crater rises 6 to 7 motors
above the level of the surrounding area.
This article d ir,,custses the craters in detail, describes the oxaa-
vationo that have been mach, and gives the conclusions arrived at by re
rscarcheru, There is ov.td01?ice that the meteorite fell approximately 1,,000
to 5,000 y(.art-s ago. ("The KuaL.iyarv Craters," by Ye. L, Krinov, Priroda,
No. 7, 1960, pp, 55-60)
indicated in a well-written and informative 10-page article recently
Discussion of tho Earth';. Outer Radiation Bolt
S. A. Slavs',inskiy of the Physical Institute im. P. N. Lebedev
has written a florin-panto dIi eussion of the Earth's radiation belt for the
readers of' the Soviet popular science journal Priroda. Intended for popu-
lar consumption, the article is an excellent summarization of the most
important facts now known about this phenomenon, but apparently conveys
no new factual material. ("The Outer Radiation. Belt," by S. A. Slavatir.-
skiy, Priroda, No. '/, JtL11,r 1960, pp. 3-6)
On the Problrern of Concnur;ication with tntelligent Beings on Other Planets
The Soviets ore keenly interested in the problem of possible com-
munication with intelligent beings on other planets. This is clearly CPYRGHT
appearing in Priroda. The various topics discussed are:
'Do Other ane-
a an a Learned from
h
y
stems"; " here Can Life
msmiig.N
Intellige Beings?";
e of This ommunication
w to Overeime Interfer
"Is Communication Pos-
0
ence": "In What Dirnrtion to Make the Search."J
"Interstellar Communication"; "What is the Nat
Channel?"; "How Far Will t:-,,: Signal Reach?"-*, 11
Arise?"; "How Many Planets Can be the Cradle
tary Systems Exist?"; "The 7cans Hypothesis";
Stellar Rotation"; "The Plurality of Planetar
sible with Intelligent Beings on Other Planets?" by Professor
Shklovskiy, Priroda, No. 7, July 1960, pp. 21-30)
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IV, METEOROLOGY
Moll ntro-nonL of the C,on