Healthy Home Newsletter October 2017 - Volume XV, Issue 10 | Page 2

Get Inspired
October 1957 – Russia launches first satellite
“Whenever you are
confronted with an
opponent, conquer him with
love.”
–Gandhi
In the books:
The Big Move
Cancer Ride
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union
launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It was a
58 cm (23 in) diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio
antennas to broadcast radio pulses. It was visible all around the Earth
and its radio pulses were detectable. This surprise success
precipitated the American Sputnik crisis and triggered the Space
Race, a part of the larger Cold War. The launch ushered in new
political, military, technological, and scientific developments.
(Sunday, September 10 th , 2017)
With a bit of help from our Clean
and Healthy Team the Big Move
Cancer Ride was a HUGE success!
With 43 teams and 488 participants
the Ride raised $336, 627.61 this
year (more donations continue to
trickle in!). Our Clean and Healthy
Team itself was the tenth highest
raising team raising $9495. We
thank everyone in the community
who helped raise money for this
event as it goes directly to
purchasing medical equipment for
our hospital here in the Niagara
Region. Congratulations everyone
who participated this year and for
those of you who did not have a
chance to participate, we hope
more of you can join us for this very
important event next year!
Tracking and studying Sputnik 1 from Earth provided scientists with
valuable information, even though the satellite itself wasn't equipped with
sensors. The density of the upper atmosphere could be deduced from its
drag on the orbit, and the propagation of its radio signals gave information
about the ionosphere.
The satellite travelled at about 29,000 kilometers per hour (18,000 mph;
8,100 m/s), taking 96.2 minutes to complete each orbit. It transmitted on
20.005 and 40.002 MHz, which were monitored by amateur radio
operators throughout the world. The signals continued for 21 days until
the transmitter batteries ran out on 26 October 1957. Sputnik burned up
on 4 January 1958 while reentering Earth’s atmosphere, after three
months, 1440 completed orbits of the Earth, and a distance travelled of
about 70 million km (43 million mi).
Source: Wikipedia
Quotes for October…
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” -Anne of Green Gables
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
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