European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday. June 12, 19b7 the stars and stripes Page 7 lightning Kos 3 Nasa weather rockets Washington lightning strikes Deal Rojad i rec Small Nasa rockets awaiting launch from Wallops Island. And also damaged inc nation s main weather satellite ground station officials said Wodni Day. The Rock cos were la study Thunder storm effects before Ili Ijiro destruction in a coast storm tuesday night. Officials from Ilic space Agency and the National oceanic and atmospheric administration said no one was injured but up to nine hours of weather data was lost from the two goes satellites Hal Monitor weather from 22,300-Milc-High orbits. This is the worst lightning strike the station has incurred in its 18-year history said Larry Heacock director of sat Elitc operations for Noaa the lightning was part of a severe storm thai hit Virginia coastal areas As cold front moved across the mid Atlantic states. The National aeronautics and space administration said a 16-foot-Long Orion sounding rocket and two 4-fool rockets were awaiting launch later in the right when they were hit by tiring pad was no damaged and total damage to the Nasa equipment was estimated Al less than $50,000. In March a $161 million Atlas Cen Taur rocket and satellite combination was destroyed Jun it was struck by lightning shortly after launch from Cape Canave ral Fla. An investigation Board later criticized Nasa for launching in such a Csihar conditions and air Force weath Ermen for not warning of the lightning potential Nasa said tuesday night was the first Lime sounding rockets had been hit by before launch since the Agency began launching sounding rockets in 1945. Some 13,000 such rockets have been launched. The three rockets that were destroyed were equipped to study the nighttime effects of lightning on the upper Atmo sphere. Noaa officials said at least three lightning bolts hit their space tracking facility the Only station equipped to transmit and receive data from the two goes weather satellites monitoring conditions in he Western hemisphere. The bolls caused the loss of All weather pictures from goes East which Cov ers lie Eastern half of the United states from 7 to . To 1 . Wednesday and nil goes West images from 7 15p.m. To 4 15 . Service was restored by makeshift repairs and the antennas were aimed manually toward tic satellites. All is Antenna systems designed to transmit and receive data from the iwo goes satellites were significantly dam aged by the lightning. Noaa said the station is supposed to be projected by lightning rods and an extensive grounding system and surge protectors. Lightning hit one of the 40 tool High antennas and also struck Power lines that iced All Law station s ground systems. Immigrant shot by robbers receives donations Yaphank . A about $7,000 was Rai Sedas of wednesday for a polish immigrant who came to America to earn Money for an operation for his son Only to be shot and wounded while working Al a Gas station. Witold Wroblowski was shot in the face june 4 at inc Gas station in Calverton where he worked. He underwent More than 18 hours of surgery last week and is in stable condition at University Hospital in Stonybrook. Robbery squad detective Henry Kozen said police have Bacn communicating with Wroblowski 38, through notes and nods of the head As he recovers. Wroblowski was working 20 hours a Day seven Days a week to Cam Money so his son Wojtek Obial Stoit Poland can undergo an operation to help him walk police said. The 8-Ycar-old son suffers from a form of meningitis that attacks the leg Muscles. So far Aboul $7,000 has been sent to the Riverhead savings Bank where a fund has been set up to Benefit him said Bank manager Bruce Sanford. Since the fund was set up Friday 156 donations Many with prayers have been received from across the nation he said. The operation is not critical said police it John. Horan. But with the operation it s almost a Gua Rantee that the kid will walk detectives on wednesday were taking Wroblewski a get Well card from a California person who donated the phone on sunday was jumping off the Horan said. We had Aboul 100 phone Calls for T All across the United Horan said Wroblowski suffers from a fever that apparently was caused by an infection from 57 pellets taken out of his Chest one in an Eye and another lodged near the brain. His facial features arc so disfigured that he does not want the family to see him this Way Horan said. Kozen said Wroblowski has asked that his family not be notified of his injuries which included Exten Sive damage to the jaw. There have been offers to Fly the family to the United states for free but Horan said Wrob Lewiki does not want them to see him yet. Wroblewski was Shol after slamming and Locking the door As to robbers approached the Gas station. Police have no suspects in the robbery. Student discovers error in Newton s calculations Chicago a physics student Robert Gam to did t move heaven and Earth but he did find an error in sir Isaac Newton s or India hat had gone undetected since the master Laid out the taws of motion and his theory of Gravity 300 years ago. What goes up however still must come Down. It s great thai i found ii but it certainly does t change history s vie of Newton or anything said Garisto 23, a University of Chicago student what i found is that Newton using his own data plugged the wrong value into a calculation and came up with a discrepancy of about ii percent Garisto said. He simply was inconsistent in How he used disown numbers in an the equation in question appears in proposition eight of Book three of the philosophize naturals Pine Ilia first published in 1687, it i considered by Many scientists to be one of the greatest single contributions in the history of science. The work which established Newton s brilliance Asa scientist astronomer and mathematician purported to explain How a unified system of scientific principles Gravity and motion governed what happened on Earth and in the heavens. In proposition eight Newton tried to demonstrate the correctness of his explanation by calculating the mass surface Gravity and density of All of that Era s known planets. It is in the calculation of the mass of the Earth Hal Parisio found the inconsistency. To determine the mass Newton needed to know the Angle Between a line from inc Center of the Earth to the Sun and a line from a Point on the Earth s surface to the Sun. Modern science has put Hal number Al about 8,8 seconds. A second is one 3,600th of a degree Newton s notes indicated that he believed inc figure to be seconds bul Abr some mysterious reason lie used 11 seconds in the equation used to calculate the Earth s mass. That is the error that Garisto discovered. Parisio came to repeat those calculations As pan Ofa class assignment. When found inc discrepancy my initial reaction was wow t did the calculations Over figuring in the15 percent change and Bingo 1 got what should have been the right number. Quite frankly i just went ahead and finished i Hepper and turned in in assuming thai the discrepancy is the reason we were assigned to run the numbers in the first place he was mid february. Bul the significance of the find eluded even professor Noel Swerdlow who gave Garisto an a plus for his paper. Swerdlow said he had give the class the assign ment because he had never been Able to get the num Bers in proposition eight to agree with each other. Physics student Robert Garisto displays the revised Principia calculations that Are making him famous. App told in april Swerdlow and Garisto attended a lecture on the Pine Ilia by University of Chicago Nobel laureates Chandra Eschar. Immediately afterwards the professor said both realized whal Garisto had uncovered. I immediately went to the Library and went crazy said Parisio. To researched everything i could find reviewed the literature on Principia and went Buck Over the different published editions and tried to re coi id How the error was made wrote a More extensive paper submitted it to the scientific Honor society Sigma i and won the University chapter s prize for excellence in science no Small feat in a physics department that counts is Nobel prize winners among its Pat or current students and faculty members. Parisio is to receive his Bachelor s degree in physics saturday and plans to begin graduate work Nen fall at the University of Michigan. He said he will continue his stud ies in theoretical High Energy physics and Albert Einstein s theory of general relativity. A cd whether he Anli Daies finding problems with Einstein s work Garis to lung had and said give me a
