“On an average each year there are discovered six or seven new comets, about 150 smaller planets and many thousands of stars and nebulae,” said Mr E. G. Jones in an illustrated lecture to the Auckland Astronomical Society. Three new planets in pur own solar system had been discovered within the past 150 years, added the lecturer, making nine in all. It was possible that the presence of yet another, further out still, might be established in the near future.
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Southland Times, Issue 22457, 18 December 1934, Page 8
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