Show NEAREST PLANET y avre than 20 miles m diameter and known as era new york jan 10 A special to the journal and Advert cr from cam bridge mass says professors pickering Pic karing and wendell u the harvard observatory have just made borne very with regard to the view planet eros from the recent discoveries it Is found that the harvard observatory took photographs of chia planet as eaffy as these photographs when compared with the ones that were taken last night made it possible to tell accurately cura tely the path filae and distance of the planet ram the earth the astronomers tove determined that the planet Is probably not more than twenty miles in diameter and at comes nearer tha earth than any other planet it belongs to a group of that come between mars and jupiter but eroe breaks away and often comets this ade of liars thus being nearer the eartis than any celestial body except the moon these observations will continue at tho observatory until about the first 0 march aban it Is Intended to continue the observations from the station in south where itla believed the clanet will be visible a month longer than in any other part of the world |