Piute County News | 1948-04-16 | Page 2 | Bundle from Heaven

I 1 BUNDLE FROM HEAVEN new minor planet swims into ken r V U S astronomers have revealed the discovery of a bundle from heaven a strange new minor planet which moves around the sun sm at high speed the planetoid Is only about two milen in diameter although there lure are about 1600 of these minor chunks ol of matter all circling around the earth like the sun most ot of them travel in orbits far larger than of 0 the earth and do not come anywhere near it it is the fact act that the newly discovered planet cuts through the earths orbit that makes it unusual only four our other minor planets have been found aund which do this and they have since been costlo lost to astronomers telescopes