European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 30, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday August 30, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 5 Neptune s Moon coldest body in space Pasadena Calif. A nip tune i icy volcanic Moon Triton is the coldest known body Ever measured in the solar system Nasa said monday and the planet itself has something in common with los Angeles smog. The voyager 2 space probe also Dis covered auroras vaguely like Earth s Northern lights on Neptune and Triton scientists said. Looking backward 3.2 million Miles. Voyager 2 on monday snapped a series of family portraits of Neptune and Tri ton appearing As crescents As they were Bac lighted by the Sun. Earlier voyager 2 s ultraviolet Detec Tor determined that Triton s surface temperature is 400 degrees below Zero fahrenheit making the Moon the coldest body we have seen in the solar system said Roger Cylle of the University of Ari Zona. Scientists believe i Luto and its Moon Charon arc the second coldest bodies in the solar system. In another finding the Best close up photo yet of another Moon 1989 no showed that Neptune s second largest Moon has a huge Crater about half As wide As the Lumpy looking. 240-Milc wide satellite. That indicates that u big meteorite once smacked into 1989 no one of six Moons discovered since june by voyager according to Bradford Smith the Leader of voyager s photographic imag ing team. Voyager also sent Back heat measurements to help scientists find liquid lakes or oceans on Triton but the Moon almost certainly is too cold to have them said Torrance Johnson a scientist at the National aeronautics and space administration s Jet propulsion Laboratory Here. Johnson defended the theory advanced by other scientists sunday that this photo sent by voyager 2 shows the surface of Neptune s largest Moon Triton. Triton has Active volcanoes that erupt nitrogen ice particles 20 Miles skyward. It in t a crazy idea he said. Voyager s close encounter with Nep tune occurred thursday night and it passed Triton on Friday capping its epic tour of the four outer planets including Jupiter Saturn and uranus. The probe has also found five rings including three thin ones and two Broad bands of dust. 1989 no took nereid s place As Nep tune s second largest Moon after Triton. No and the other five Moons discovered by voyager in addition to Triton and nereid which were discovered from Earth have not yet been permanently named. The latest data returned by voyager s ultraviolet Light sensor revealed auroras somewhat like Earth s Northern an Southern lights Over wide sections of Neptune s skies and Over much of Tri ton s Day Side said yell. But unlike Earth s auroras which glow in visible Light As electrically charged particles excite nitrogen and oxygen gases the auroras on Neptune and Triton arc invisible to the human Eye. That s be cause they glow in ultraviolet Light caused when the particles excite Hydro Gen Gas. Sunlight hitting natural Gas. Or meth Ane High in Neptune s atmosphere con verts it into photochemical smog that forms a 90-Milc-Lhick icy layer at the Bottom of Neptune s stratosphere said Jim Pollock an imaging team member from Nasa s Ames research Center in Mountain View Calif. Smith said smog on Neptune and in los Angeles have definite similarities although los Angeles smog has components absent on Neptune. Finding smog on Neptune is no sur prise Smith said. Photochemical smog exists any place planet or Moon we be been that has an atmosphere. In los an Geles the problem is it s happening Way Down Low where we have to breathe it i amounts exceeding anything we be seen except on Titan Saturn s smoggy Moon. Auroras on planets arc caused when electrically charged particles from the solar wind spiral toward a planet s mag  poles along magnetic Field lines. On Earth the magnetic poles arc listed only12 degrees away from the poles around which the planet rotates so auroras appear As Northern and Southern lights in Polar regions. Neptune s major magnetic poles Are tilled 50 degrees away from its rotational poles and scientists have said the planet May have multiple magnetic poles. That could explain Why Neptune s auroras appear Over wide areas of the planet. Former aide first to take stand against Bakker Charlotte . A Jim Bakker s trial on 28 counts of fraud and conspiracy opened monday with a Federal prosecutor accusing the television evangelist of fleecing followers he considered Tacky so he could live in High  convicted of All 28 counts he could be sentenced to 120 years in prison and fined $5  say Bakker and other executives at the pal evangelical Empire diverted for their own Benefit at least $4 million of the is 58 million they raised by Selling lifetime partnerships at the ministry s resort hotel. But Bakker s lawyer said in his opening argument that Bakker is a creative religious Genius who is unfairly  quit pal amid revelations about his 1980 sexual encounter with Church Secretary Jessica Hahn and a $265,000 payoff to  trial s first witness David Taggart a former personal assistant to Bakker testified that Bakker was involved daily in details of the ministry s fund raising whether he was on vacation or  and his brother James pal s Interior Deco Rator were convicted last month of tax evasion and each faces 25 years in prison and is million in fines at sentencing sept. 8.Taggart, who said he testified because it might have some Impact on my sentencing testified Bakker also told him top television evangelists diverted funds for their own use. Under Bakker s orders. Taggart said he spent More than $500,000 in pal Money to Purchase and decorate a condominium for the Bakker family in Highland Beach flo., in 1982. He said pal directors did no approve the expenditure until several months later. Bakker also complained about his salary Taggart testified. I remember or. Bakker saying he wanted to be paid like Johnny  he said. The prosecution says pal raised $158 million from1984 to 1987 by promising si.000 donors three nights free lodging per year for life in hotels at heritage Usa. Pal s Christian theme Park in fort Mill. . During those years. Bakker and his wife Drew s3.5 million in bonuses plus other Perks prosecutors said. Assistant . Attorney Jerry Miller said the Case i about cheating people out of their Money tricking peo ple out of their Money by the use of the mails Tele lutherans to end s. Africa financial ties Rosemont Iii. A the evangelical lutheran Church in America voted overwhelmingly monday to sell All Stock in companies operating in South Africa by sept. 1, 1991, despite objections the denomination could lose Money. Prudence is a Christian virtue and i m not going to listen to Pagan lawyers Tell me How to be a prudent Christian said Bishop William Lazareth of new York City who supported the deadline. An estimated 85 percent of the 1,041 delegates voted for the deadline in a show of cards vote. At stake was the Church s $1.6 billion pension fund of which $84.9 million is invested in companies doing business in South Africa. The meeting is the first since the 1988 merger of the lutheran Church in America the american lutheran Church and the association of evangelical lutheran churches. The divestment move is aimed at pushing South Africa to end apartheid which establishes a racially segregated society in which the country 28 million lacks arc dominated by 5 million Whites. It s a matter of outrage said Bishop Harold Jen sen of Washington . Sve can t Deal with it simply on a rational  the vote on divestment followed nearly three hours of debate among delegates in the 5.3 million member denomination the third largest among . Protes Tants. Several protestant denominations particularly the episcopal Church the United Church of Christ the Church of the Brethren and the quakers have had Strong divestment policies but none has sold All its holdings. The Assembly in the sixth Day of an eight Day meet ing also approved a major missions program for the 1990s. Phone and  Miller told jurors the Money paid for a lavish life style most of you won t be Able to identify with including $100,000 for a private Jet to take the bakkers clothing to California. Miller said the bakkers had two Rolls Royce and four Mercedes automobiles including one used Only to drive Bakker s 12-year-old son from place to place. You will hear evidence of or. Bakker s disdain for the people he was asking to Send  Miller  will hear How he described them As Tacky be cause of the Way they  Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Aug. 30, 1949 mayor Shimozo Hamai of Hiro Shima. Japan said in a radio broadcast that Between 210.000 and 240,000 people had been killed by the atom bomb that was dropped on his City in 1945, twice As Many As had previously been reported. 30 years ago today. Aug. 30, 1959 while meeting with British prime minister Harold Macmillan in London presi Dent Eisenhower pledged that the United states would never negotiate with the soviets behind the backs of its allies. 20 years ago today. Aug. 30, 1969 a . Circuit court judge announced that the Case of seven Mississippi Kun flux klan members convicted of plotting to kill three civil rights workers would not be reheard. 10 years ago today. Aug. 30, 1979 at a news conference in new York former Bolshoi Ballet Star Alexander Godunov said he could not understand Why his wife Ballerina Ludmilla Vlasova had returned to Moscow rather than join him in defecting to the United states