Word: planeters
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Eddington in The Nature of the Physical World told man that his reckoning of Time was misleading ; that the age of man could not be accurately determined by the time given by the Astronomer Royal. Two individuals, he said, one firmly rooted to the earth, the other skipping from planet to planet, would not age at the same rate. While the static man was passing through 70 years of the Astronomer Royal's time the other, provided he traveled sufficiently fast, would, during the same period, have need for only 365 dinners, luncheons, breakfasts, the same number of eight...
Announcement was made yesterday by Professor Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, of the possibility that another hitherto unknown transneptunian planet has been discovered...
Proof of this newly discovered planet consists of several photographic plates taken at the Dominion Observatory at Ottawa...
...Named by the discoverer of uranous oxide, Marin Heinrich Klaproth, after the planet Uranus. Not until 60 years later was ''uranium" broken down into the true metal...
While astronomers debated and calculated, names for X poured into newspaper offices. Mrs. Percival Lowell, widow of the planet's prophet, at first leaned toward "Percival" but now prefers "Lowell." Outside of Boston neither suggestion has been warmly received. Astronomers, a conservative clan, will likely select a classical name. If Clyde Tombaugh, first human actually to see the planet, suggests a name satisfactory to astronomers, it will doubtless be accepted. Names suggested last week: Telesis, Noveno, Amos, Andy, Tunney, Pax, Archie, Nonus, Cronos, Ceres, Juno, Vulcan, Persephone, Minerva, Excelsis, Coolidge, Hoover, Jesus...