Show new planet I 1 i lan e t Is in in solar 1 system discovery confirms prediction made by lowell back in 1902 new york A new world a ninth major member of at tie the small family which makes up our known iolar system has bus been added to tile the list of heavenly bodlos bodies by lie astronomers lowell observatory working upon the calculations of the late percival perch al lowell announced just 1 H years t to the day after sir william its covery of the planet Ur uranus arius this achievement supplies only the third important a addition to the s solar ola r system since the duys days of tile the ancients says the new york herald tribune the new planet is es estimated to be n nearly ear ly miles abt anway IV it Is invisible except to pow powerful erfiA telescopes and lie its effect upon life on the earth cannot be considerable nevertheless th eless the discovery has a fasel fascinating riat interest in III that it suddenly enlarges our own particular corn corner or of space it reveals an unknown sister planet lying in comparison the vast depths of space into which recent astronomical discovery has penetrated almost at our own doorstep scientific triumph repeated the discovery Is also startling in that it repeats so exactly one of the most famous of all the triumphs of the method the discovery of the planet neptune after its position had been calculated from the motions of the known planets and its position in i tae sky shy accorn accurately tely indic indicated abed finding of the trans neptune planet la Is tile the culmination and reward of doctor lowells effort to repent the success in the lie case of neptune As long ago as 1902 doctor lowell a writer and traveler who had turned tits his interest seriously to astronomy rather late in life predicted from tits ills study of the motions of the eight known major planets the possible existence of a ninth in the cold reaches of space beyond the orbit of neptune search begun in 1915 the alip great labor of complex calculi ton necessary to the hypothesis po thesis and establish the location of the supposed body was not completed until 1914 when doctor lowell published his memoir A trans planet arid and the hie actual work of searching for the predicted world did not begin until the year tear following follow ing doctor lowell lied died in 1916 it Is only now a decade and a halt half later inter that his work has been finally justified ifield A special telescope with delicate pho apparatus was installed last year expressly to curry carry oo on the search hut but eved so th the first result did not coine come until january 21 when clyde W it a young youn kansan world working ngon on the staff of the observatory atory actually detected the lie new spot of light upon a pil aphia him film which announced tile lie existence elst nc of it a new member of the solar family arid and thus became the first human being to see sec the ninth planet further observation wits na necessary to make sure sine that the pin point of i light actually represented a new body and to prove that it was moving against tile the stationary background of tile the stars in accordance with prediction before the announcement could be made which as 0 0 lampland Lain astronomer of the observatory states 14 it appears to mark fulfillment of a prediction mode made three decades ago by the he founder of the lowell observatory believed larger than earth it will require time to fill in details concerning the planet X remote as it Is from the sun moving in mi at outer space ciui can receive so little solar heat that th it the temperature would be low enough to liquefy air and with so long an orbit that its year would equal to SOO terrestrial terre years conditions upon it certainly can be nothing like those upon tile tho carth in size it Is lai announced to be certainly as large as the earth arid and perhaps very much larger the question has been raised as to whether still more worlds may not re main lintn to be conquered there are known to be many small planets or asteroids and there liere are arc probably many more in existence than have actually been recorded astronomical calculation seems to indicate that there may bp be some other of larger size but it la Is unlikely that any more of major proportions are still to be discovered the discovery of neptune now repeated in the discovery of the new planet was vas a dazzling triumph of the nineteenth century cited rind again to prove the correctness of the scientific method of deduction and undoubtedly contributing an share to the wave of enthus enthusiasm lasin for science which during the nineteenth century swept the world away from the old moorings of wore more traditional I 1 philosophies uranus discovered by chance from the time of tile the ancients until 1781 the solar system had existed its as n compact arrangement of six planets mercury venus the earth Marth mars jupiter and saturn in the order of their distance from the sun Her herschelt discovery of uranus was waa accidental it ON 1 I C commission 37 A e judge thigh hugh INI M tate of knoxville tenn who lias has been confirmed by the senate to be a member of the interstate commerce commission ile he succeeds richard V taylor of alabama appeared in his telescope ps OB he be was sweeping the heavens nod and he first set it down as a comet observation through a few weeks established its diameter character as a genuine planet interestingly enough herschel Hersch cl though its discoverer was by no means the first to have seen it it was possible to check back through the records arid and find that it had bud been observed a number of times before but had been supposed to be a star the small planet ceres with an orbit between those of mars and Jup jupiter lter was discovered in 1801 and was the first of what later turned out to be a whole swarm of asteroids or tiny planets in the same region about 1000 of them have since been re corded neptunus Nep tunes position calculated these discoveries concentrated concentrate i attention upon the planets in working out tile flip calculations for the new planet uranus franu sit it was soon found ill hint at the observations observation did not agree with the calculations the p problem bohlem awakened an Iner increasing easing interest and considerable sid erable effort was expended both in checking over the observations and in seeking fora possible new explanation the possibility of observational error soon lind had to be discarded while as early as 1834 the idea that the abe apparent aberrations of the planet might be due to the file existence of another undiscovered one was advanced A number of astronomers devoted themselves to the problem tind and both leverrier in prance france and ami adams tn fit england worked out the probable position of the supposed body in 1846 leverrier Leverr ler submitted ills his calculations to the observers the telescopes were trained accordingly oil and tho the planet neptune stood revealed doth both men had calculated so closely that either set of tables would have resulted d in the dis eaver y worlds confidence won the same saine process repented to reveal a ninth planet may not seem so wonderful to the public of today long accustomed to the astounding accuracy of astronomical prediction but tn in 1846 it seem seemed edmore more than magical and enor strengthened the worlds awakening confidence in the powers w which aich the intellectual intellectual tool of scientific method had put into its grasp with the far better instruments and more refined methods of today it has ion long g been realized that not everything in the observed motions of the solar system cart can be explained even if the ninth planet exhausts the list of large bodies in the system there still will be a field for research in planetary motions while n very large field for research in pinne planetary tary physics and geography still remains open |