NEW PLANET
SOLAR CIRCUIT TAKES YEARS
I United Press Association—By Eleotna 'telegraph;- -Copyright.)
- » V NEW YORK, October 30. Professor William Pickering, an in-ternationally-known astronomer, has announced from Mandeville, Jamaica, that he predicts the discovery soon of a new planet, named “Planet P.,” which he estimates principally from a perturbation of the planet Uranus. He estimates that it will be found from five thousand to nine thousand million miles from the sun, and that it will prove to have a diameter of) 40,00 b miles. He computes that the new planet takes 656 years to make one circuit of the sun, on its elliptica» orbit.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1931, Page 3
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