ANOTHER PLANET?
OBJECT IN THE HEAVENS IS SEEN FROM CANADA SCIENTISTS OBSERVING Reed. 11.5 a.m. CAMBRIDGE (Massachusetts), Wed. Professor Harlow Shapley, Director of Harvard Observatory, following the receipt of a telegram from the Dominion Observatory, Ottawa, announced the possible proof of another hitherto unknown trans-Neptunian planet, which was discovered on plates taken at Ottawa six years ago. Professor Shapley stated that Professor Stewart, of Ottawa, reported • “An object discovered by M. Henroteau and Miss Burland oil plates taken in 1924 was suspected to be a transNeptuniajt planet.” This apparently trans-Neptunian object lies very far out in the planetary system, but since no form of magnitude has been given by observers, it is impossible to say whether this is another trans-Neptunian body like the planet X recently discovered by the Lowell Observatory or the nucleus of a great colnet at or near the aphelion. Its position in 1924 shows that it is not the Lowell Observatory object.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 955, 24 April 1930, Page 11
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156ANOTHER PLANET? Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 955, 24 April 1930, Page 11
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