NEW PLANET SHOWS UP
AMERICAN OBSERVATORY REPORTS DISCOVERY LARGER THAN THE EARTH Reed. 9.5 a.m. CAMBRIDGE (Mass.), Today. Professor Harlow Shapley, director of Harvard Observatory, on Thursday announced that word had been received from Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona, of the discovery of a ninth planet in the solar system beyond Neptune. It is probably larger than the earth, and smaller than Uranus.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 921, 14 March 1930, Page 9
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63NEW PLANET SHOWS UP Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 921, 14 March 1930, Page 9
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