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INTERESTING REPORT FROM CANADA. (United Press Association—By BSectrlo Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW YORK, April 23. A message from Cambridge, Massachusetts, says that Professor Harlow Shapley, Director of Harvard Observatory, following the receipt of a telegram from the Dominion Observatory at Ottawa, announced possible proof of another hitherto unknown transNeptunian planet, discovered on plates taken at Ottawa six years ago. Dr. Shapley stated that Professor Stewart, of Ottawa, reported: “The object discovered by Henroteau and Miss Burland on plates taken in 1924 is suspected to be a trans-Neptunian planet. This apparently trans-Nep-tunian object is at least very far out in the planetary system, but since no form, or magnitude, had been given by observers, it is impossible to say whether this was another trans-Nep-tunian body like the planet ‘X’ recently discovered by the Lowell Observatory, or the nucleus of the Great Comet at, or near, Athelion. The position of the new body in 1924 shows that it is not the Lowell Observatory object.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18552, 26 April 1930, Page 17 (Supplement)
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162NEW PLANET. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18552, 26 April 1930, Page 17 (Supplement)
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