PLANETARY BODIES SEEN BY OBSERVER.
MAY BE NOTHING MORE THAN TWO ASTEROIDS. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, April 3. While attempting to find the new planet reported to have been discovered recently by the Lowell Observatory, Mr W. Hunter, of Titirangi Road, made the discovery of two bodies close to the star Zeta in Gemini. He has observed them carefully during the past week and finds by their movement that they are members of the planetary sj'stem. Messages from America stated that the new planet was found close to Delta Geminorum, along the ecliptic between Jupiter and Neptune. Mr Hunter, who has a seven-foot telescope with an B*in lens, has been unable to find' any bodies at all close to that star, but two pearl-grey bodies are clearly visible above Zeta Geminorum. If their movement over a period is found to be comparatively fast, they will definitely be proved to be no more than asteroids.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19036, 3 April 1930, Page 7
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