Editing 1932 in science (section)

==Astronomy and space sciences==
* August 10 – A 5.1&nbsp;kg [[chondrite]]-type [[meteorite]] breaks into fragments and strikes earth near the town of [[Archie, Missouri]].
* [[Estonia]]n astronomer [[Ernst Öpik]] postulates that [[long-period comet]]s originate in an orbiting cloud (the Öpik–[[Oort cloud]]) at the outermost edge of the [[Solar System]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=E.|last=Öpik |title=Note on Stellar Perturbations of Nearly Parabolic Orbits|journal=Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences|volume=67|issue=6|pages=169–183|doi=10.2307/20022899|jstor=20022899 |date=October 1932|bibcode=1932PAAAS..67..169O }}</ref>