Word: planeters
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...hitherto unknown planet, the ninth of our solar system, has been located beyond Neptune by astronomers at the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona, according to an announcement made yesterday by the Harvard College Observatory. It was in search of this planet that Percival Lowell '76, an older brother of President Lowell, spent the last years of his life. As an interesting side-light, it was learned yesterday that the date of the discovery would have been his seventy-fifth birthday...
...planet is probably larger than the Earth and smaller than Neptune, and can be seen only with the most powerful telescopes now in existence. It has been estimated that the sun's light at this farthest planet can hardly exceed that of moonlight, and under such a low temperature the nitrogen that might be in the air would be solid and the oxygen, if not solid, at least a dense liquid...
Percival Lowell, to whom the real credit must go for the discovery, founded the Lowell Observatory in 1894. At that time he was especially attracted by the problems of the markings on the planet Mars, and the Observatory has always devoted its of largely to that planet, and the planetary system. Astronomers have long known from the irregularities in the motions of the farthest planets that another existed still farther off. Some years before his death Lowell made some calculations to discover the position and the orbit of that planet, which were published in the proceedings of the American Academy...
...cars, 500,000 less than last year, then said the future of the automobile industry "depends upon the disposition of the American automobile users, in the future as through the past, to continue to be the most 'wasteful' class of human beings that has ever inhabited this planet." C. W. Nash of the Nash Motor Co. said the industry "is on the eve of a general reorganization." In 1916, he pointed out, there were no manufacturers at the show, this year only 34. During 1930 he expects further weeding out of weak firms...