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Show NEW PLANETS DISCOVERED. ; M. Galliot, addressing the Academy of Science in New York, a night last week, made an announcement of supreme su-preme Interest that he has discovered discover-ed two new planets beyond Neptune, which Is tho outermost known planet of the solar system. The French astronomer as-tronomer stated that he had made this discovery by employing the same raeth ods of mathematical calculation which enabled Leverrlor to assign to Neptune Nep-tune a position within a definite region re-gion in space, which permitted of its discovery in 1846. The famous theoretical discovery of Neptune Is universally recognized as the greatest triumph of mathematical astronomy. It was accomplished Independently In-dependently and alinosf simultaneously simultaneous-ly by Adams and Leverrler. Although the data and methods used in 1846 by the two computers were not capable of determining. the unknown planet's orbit, tbev sufficed to disclose the direction di-rection of its motion, so that they wero able to inform astronomers searching for the remote ' stranger precisely where to point their telescopes. In fact, Leverrler actually wrote In substance sub-stance to the astronomer Gallo at Berlin: Ber-lin: "Direct your telescope to a point on the ecliptic, In the constellation of Aquarius, In longitude 326 degrees, and you will And, within a degree of that place, a new planet" a prediction which was almost exactly verified within with-in half an hour after Galle'e search began. The. difficulties encountered by M. Gallot in fixing the positions of two traneneptunian planets may be inferred infer-red from the Immense distance even of Neptune, 2,800,000,000 miles from the sun, or about thirty times as great as the earth's distance. The full results re-sults of the French astronomer's calculations cal-culations will be awaited with intense and world-wide interest. |