Show NEW PLANET IN 1 SOLAR SYSTEM S 16 confirm confirms pre diction made by lowell back in 1902 new york borka A neff new world a ninth major m taber of 01 the tie small 11 family which mikes likes up our known lolar solar sy hysten stear aks beba added to the list of ha heavenly venly bodies by the astron omero of aniell observatory work log ing upon tie ue calculations of the late percyel bywell vell announced just years to the day after titter sir lellam Iler discovery of uie the planet aranus his this achievement supplies only ito be third important addition to the sular system since the day days of the ancients says uie the new ew yi lerald Iri tribune bune the iwa it vv planet Is estimated to be ti odily ay iy milet away it Is lo visible except to pow erful te telescopes lepes and its effect upon life on the ito pirth cannot be con COO sid erable nevertheless the disbot cry ery has tins a fascinating interest la to that it suddenly enlarges en arges our own particular corner of space at reveals an unknown sister claret ly ing in comparison with tre vast depths of space luto into whid recent astronomical discovery has penetrated almost at our own doorstep doors tcP fc repeated the lb also in that it repeats so exactly one of u the most famous of all the of the meth odthe dit covery of uie the planet neptune after its pe position sillon had been calculated from the maom of the known know planets and its te position in the sky accurately fr licater finding of the he trans neptune planet Is the culmination and reft ard of doctor lowella lowells effort to repeat abd success lo 10 the case ot of fortune neptune A As long ao 03 1002 doctor low Lovi eil a writer riter and traveler who had turned his interest seri berl bously busl y to astronomy rather late in life pred acted from b his Is study of the motions of the eight known major planets the possible exist ence of a ninth in the cold reache reaches of space beyond the orbit ct of neptune search begun in 1915 the anut labor of complex cal culat cu lation loo anwary to demonstrate the and find establish th location of if the supposed body wa was not completed until 1914 when doctor lonell loell published his memoir A planet and the actual work of search lat for the predicted world did not riot begin until the year fol following lowin doctor loniell LOB ell died in 1916 it Is only nov dow a decade and sad a half later that I 1 is work lias tins ben bet n final anal ly A special telescope with delicate photographic record ing orp aratus was last 3 isar r tillit asly to carry on the search but een so go the first result did not come until january 21 when clyde IV W a youns l ui JiS ca c the tb ats c cf the he observatory actually selected detected the tb new I 1 spot pot cf f light upon a photographic film elm announced the tb existence of a oiw rember of the solar family famili and thus became the first human being to see the dicta planet further observation was necessary to make male sure that the pin point of light actually represented a new body and to prove that it was moving against the stationary background of the stars in accord ance ath knitli prediction before the child be made which as 1 I 0 or lampland astronomer of the observatory states it s appears ap peari to mark fulfillment of a I prediction made three decades ago by the founder of the lowell observatory atory soll believed eved larger than aarti it III require time to nil in details concerning the planet X be mote as it Is from the sun ban moving in an outer pace space which can receive 60 little solar heat beat that the tempa could would be low enough to liquefy air and with so long an so orbit that its year would equal buo or terrestrial years con dillons upon it certainly can con be luo thIll alkil those upon the earth in size it Is announced to be certainly as large as the earth and nod perhaps very my much larger the question has been raged 11 81 to whether still more worlds conquered may in rel a not remain to be conque conquered there are known to be many small planets or asteroids and there afe probably many more in exist a ence nt e than have actually been recorded ast astronomical rono mical calculation seems seeing to indal indicate ate hat lint there may be sa me others of lathe elze size but it 11 Is 13 ui ul that any more of goo major jor are still till to be dincov bretl the discovery of neptune now bew repeated in to the discovery of the new planet was wits a dazzling triumph of the nineteenth century cited again and scala uala to prove the cor u ness of the dentine scientific method of deduction and undoubtedly con an important hare share to the wave of enthus lasin for science which during he the nineteenth cen tury fury swept the world away from the old moorings of more bradl lional philosophies uranus discovered b by chance chants from the time of afe the ancients until 1781 the solar system had ex isted as a compact of six planets mercury venus the earth mars jupiter and saturn la in the order of their distance from the ean son aln overy of uranus was accidental it appeared in his telescope tele sope as he lie was wag 8 sweeping ivee P the heavens and be he first set it down as a comet observation through a few week weeks established iti its character as a it sen gen alne planet incidentally enough herschel though its discoverer was by no means the first to have seen it IL it was possible to check bark back through the records a and nd find that it had been observed a nura cum her of times before but bad been supposed to be a star the small planet ceres with en to orbit between those of mars liars and jupiter was wits discovered discolored in to 1801 and was the first of what later oil to be a whole swarm of astero asteroids fits or tiny planets in the tame same region about 1000 of them have hare since been recorded position calculated these discoveries concentrated attention upon the he planets in working out the calculations for the new planet uranus it was soon found that the observations did not agree with the calculations the problem awakened an increasing interest and considerable effort was expended both in checking over the observations and in seek ing for a possible new explanation the possibility of observational observation il error soon bad had to be discarded while as early as the idea that the apparent aberrations of the planet might be due to the exist ence of another undiscovered one was advanced A number of astronomer astronomers devoted themselves to the tile problem and both Lerer leverrier ler rier to in france and adams in england worked out the probable position of the supposed body in hd leverrier submitted his calculations to the observer the telescope telescopes were trained accord angly and the planet neptune stool too revealed iloth men had calculated to closely that cither either get of tables would have resulted ID it ibe the dincov cry erl wor ds d confidence won the same process repeated to reveal a ninth planet may nut not so wonderful to the public luday today long actus accustomed tomed to the astound astounding lna accuracy of astronomical prediction but in ISU 1816 it seemed more than then magical and enormously strengthened the world a awakening confidence la in ibe the power powers which the intellectual toot tool of method bad put into its rasp grasp with the far better instruments and more refined methods of today it has lone long been realized that not lint everything in to the observed motions of the lolar solar system can be ex plaines pla ined even if it the ninth planet exhausts the list of large bodies in the system there still will be a field for research in to planetary motions while a very large field for research to in planetary physics and still remain remita open |