Keith Burns and Howard Weiss Spheres with positive curvature and nearly dense orbits for the geodesic flow (643K, Postscript) ABSTRACT. For any $\ep > 0$, we construct an explicit smooth Riemannian metric on the sphere $S^n, n \geq 3$, that is within $\ep$ of the round metric and has a geodesic for which the corresponding orbit of the geodesic flow is $\ep$-dense in the unit tangent bundle. Moreover, for any $\ep > 0$, we construct a smooth Riemannian metric on $S^n, n \geq 3$, that is within $\ep$ of the round metric and has a geodesic for which the complement of the closure of the corresponding orbit of the geodesic flow has Liouville measure less than $\ep$.