PICKERING'S NEW PLANET
(Received 30th October S a.m.)' NEW YOEK, 29th October. Professor William Pickering, inter-nationally-known astronomer, has announced from Mandeville, Jamaica, that he predicts tho discovery soori of "Planet P," which he estimates, principally from tho perturbation of Uranus, will be found from 5000 million to 0000 million wiles from the sun, with a diameter of 4.0,000 miles.
lie computes that the planet takes 650 .years to make 0116 circuit round the sun on an elliptical orbit.
The international cable nowa appearing In this issue is published by arrangement with the. Australian Tress Association and the ••Sim," •'Herald." News Office, Limited.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 106, 31 October 1931, Page 13
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