IS IT ANOTHER PLANET?
DISCOVERY BY CANADIANS PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN IN 1924 POSSIBLY A GREAT COMET Professor Harlow Shapley, director of Harvard Observatory, following the rc ceipt of a telegram from the Dominion Observatory, Ottawa, announced the possible proof of another hitherto unknown planet beyond Neptune had been discovered on plates taken at Ottawa six years ago. Professor Shapley stated that Professor Stewart, Ottawa, reported: “The object discovered by Mr. Henroteau and Miss Burland on plates taken in 1924 is suspected to be a trans-Neptunian planet. Thin apparently trans-Neptunian object is at least very far out in the planetary system, but, since no form or magnitude had been given by the observers, it is impossible to say whether this was another trans-Nep-tunian body like the planet recently discovered by the Lowell Observatory, or the nucleus of a great comet at or near its aphelion.” The position of the new body found in 1924 shows that it is not the Lowell Observatory object discovered on March 13.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 April 1930, Page 9
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165IS IT ANOTHER PLANET? Taranaki Daily News, 26 April 1930, Page 9
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