TINY WORLD IS LATEST DISCOVERY
Received Wednesday, 7.0 p.m. NEW YORK, August 26. A tiny but hitlierto unknown asteroid about two or tbree miles in dialneter, fiying in a great circle round the sun, has been discovered by Mr. C. A. Wiraneno, of Lick Observatory, California. It was announced by the Harvard Observatory at Cambridge, Massachusetts, today tliat the asteroid is of the fifteenth stellar magnitude and almost as far away from the sun as Mars.
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Chronicle (Levin), 28 August 1947, Page 5
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