HEAVENLY BODIES.
TWO NEW ONES DISCOVERED. (Ey Telegraph.—Press. Association.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Dr. C. E. Adams, Government astronomer, has been advised by tlie International Astronomical Union at Copenhagen, via Melbourne, that the Lowell Observatory reports the discovery on March 12 of an object of the fifteenth magnitude in a position seven seconds west of Bella Gemini, a position agreeing with Professor Lowell’s calculations for an uUra-neptuno planet. Dr Adams says the information is very vague and is an unusual way of designating the position of a heavenly body. Dr. Adams was also advised in the same cable of the discovery of a new comet, which is not likely to he seen Ibis part of the world.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17979, 26 March 1930, Page 7
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115HEAVENLY BODIES. Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17979, 26 March 1930, Page 7
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