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RefNoTG/1/16/153
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Thomas Gold to Dr John Saul, Oryx, 3 Rue Bourdaloue, 75009 Paris, France
Date13 April 1979
DescriptionThanks him for the letters. States he need not feel too bad about the rings of Jupiter - many people including Gold himself discussed this subject years ago. Gold warned in 1970 as a member of the planning board for the Jupiter mission that too close a passage at Jupiter ran the risk of running into rings. The discussion of the mattrer was immedately complicated by the radiation belts (they could not be where the rings were and vice versa) and by the perturbations of the satellites. They proposed that a limited ring system could nevertheless be expected, and that is what is now seen.

Gold has talked to Cleary and he is very enthusiastic about the picture Gold paints. Gold has sent Mr Jones material at Mobil and will follow up with a phone call. Nothing very firm has happened yet, but momentum is gathering. A rather powerful letter is at present under preparation, that will go to various important addresses in the Govenment, and will be signed by several Nobel laureates and others of great notoriety, stressing the importance of doing something about all this.

Gold notes the Russians are very active in gas-sniffing exploration. In case Saul had not seen this Gold is enclosing a few abstracts. It seems a clear case now that mineral exploration and fuel exploration (gas, oil and coal) must be guided by information of deep faults. The circles are symptomatic, Gold suposes, of some of those.

Gold tried to phone Saul when he was in Europe recently, but failed to connect.
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FormatTypescript copy
AccessStatusOpen
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