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...meteor which I observed was of the approximate brilliancy of Venus, greater than a first magnitude star. It did not belong to any one of the showers that the earth encounters in the round of its orbit, like the Leonids which illuminate the skies near the end of November or the Persoids which may be seen in great numbers during August...
...shower, which has taken place every 33 years for more than ten centuries, failed to appear when last due in 1899, which was attributed to the hugo planet Jupiter being too close to their orbit, and pulling them out of their course...
Some account of Planet P was made known in 1928. Now, however, Professor Pickering has estimated not only its orbit (an ellipse whose distance from the sun varies between 5,000 and 9,000 million mi.) but its diameter (44,000 mi.). It is twice as far from the sun as far-flung Pluto, is the third most massive of the sun's family, exceeded only by Jupiter and ringed Saturn. Its sidereal period: 656 years...
...mathematical plus sign (+); for 1,000 or sen, approximately that of the plus-or-minus sign (±). The careless reporter had added the upper cross bar. The new "planet" is a planetoid, about 110 not 11,000 miles in diameter. It lies between Mars and Jupiter in the general orbit of the thousand-odd other planetoids (TIME, March...
...penurious nobility of Europe made many calls on his purse, as did the many sycophants revolving in the orbit of a rich man. Of such he made society correspondents of the Herald, to two ends. Firstly these people had their entrée in society; secondly, their salaries helped to keep down profits. And the salaries were high. Real newspaper men on the Herald could not aspire to them...