PLANET "P"
I (Press Assn. — ■
j DISCOVERY OF IMMENSE NEW SATELLITE OF SUN PREDICTED
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j Rec. Oct. 30, 5.5 p.m. j NEW YORK, Thursday. Professor William Pickering, the inj ternationally known astronomer, an- ! nounced from Jamaica that he prej dicts- the discovery of planet "P", J which he estimat'es probably, from the : perturbation of Uranus, will be fctund | 5,000,000,000 to 9,000,000,000 miles I from the sun. l Brofessor Pickering believes the j planet to have a diameter of 4,000 | miles and adds that it has taken 656 ■; years to malte one circuit round the sun on an elliptical orbit.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 59, 31 October 1931, Page 3
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