Show ti ENGLISH GIRL GODMOTHER OF THE NEW PLANET PLUTO Ele Eleen le en en Year Old Miss Suggested Name Adopted for Lowell Observatory Ob Find Flagstaff Ariz The Ariz-The The The new planet Pluto I 1 no n as Planet X before Its christening bv by Its discoverer here has Ihas a n jU juvenile godmother In the perIson per lion Ison eon of an eleven eleen ele en year old girl of Ox 01 Oxford ford England Miss Venetia Burney I Shortly after atter the discovery Cr of ot the 1 v ne planet bv IJ Lo Lowell Loell ell a tory bere Prof H H II Turner the O Oxford ford astronomer cabled to Prof V M director Miss lIs Durne Burners Burner's s 's tu sug suggestion tint that the planet be named Pluto and In the officIal announcement ot of the naming Professor acknowledges acknowledges I edges the suggestion as IlS the first to tobe tobe edI be received ed r I lInen Minerva a was as another popular sug I sugI but as It has hns long been used for tor one of ot the asteroids this pre present ent t I ed the new ne planet from bearing the name of the gOddes goddess of wisdom Pro Professor Professor fessor sug suggests est that a fitting Otting s to go 10 with the name will III be n a nde de deuce deIce Ice m md mide d of or the t two two 0 first letters letter of the name Pluto capitalized an nn L L partially superimposed on a p T In Incidentally these thee are the Initials of the late Prof Lo Lowell Low ell whose hose studies inaugurated the search that rd r suited In the discovery discovers of Pluto Other astronomers astronomer notably Prof E EW EW EW W W Brown of ot title c 1 ale In a n recent corn com to the rational Academy ot of Science have hale ha e concluded that Professor Pro Professor fEssor I low 0 ow ell ells s computations of ot some 20 o years ago ag did not precisely cl predict the location of ot Pluto Professor Sit pher answers ans this thib criticism m Indirectly hen he writes in a Lowell oben observatory 11 tory circular that Pluto appears to be bea bea bea a non nonI body that fits substantially I Lo Lowell Loell ell s a predicted longitude tion and distance tor for his hla Planet X X Lowell Loell Lo ell considered his predicted date datas as only approximate and a one to ont one corre correspondence between een forecast t an noel find would not be expected bv bs familiar with the problem AS Ac lie ht h him himself himself himself self said In his lils planet memoir mE nal tic thought to prom promIse promIse promIse Ise the precision of n a rifle ride and ind finds It must rd rely upon ullon the promiscuity of ofa ofa n a shotgun This remarkable trans planetary body bod has lias been I found as fie i a direct re result of Lowell Loell Low Lo ell s work ort planning and convictions com arid and there appears present justification for andI I referring to It as his hits Planet X |