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THE STORY OF PLUTO.
FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD FORECAST FULLY CONFIRMED.
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Dr. Lowell's Theory.
smaller body which happened to lie on one of the redions in which Lowell believed this hypothetical body might be found
Confirmations of Lowell's
Prediallen Meanwhile astronomers began to examiné photographs of the Gemini region of the sky taken over a It may be well to recapitulate period of years, with a view to find- briefly the various stages in thising the image of the planet there investigation. Fifteen years ago on. On a plate taken at the Declo the late Dr. Percival Lowell pub Observatory in Belgium on January lished his Memoir on a Trans-27, 1997, an image was detected
al discovery in America. The mea-
Neptunian Planet, in which he which bore a striking resemblanco not only demonstrated that such a to the new planet, and which has planet mast exist but that certain been, with great probability, pre small residual perturbations" of stined to be actually the planet. the planet Uranus were antistao This discovery in Belgium was only torily explained by its existence, second in importance to the origin He also computed for the new planet a period of about 289 years, La distance of over 3,720,000,000 miles from the sun, a mass seven or eight times that of the earth, and an apparent brightness of the twelfth or thirteenth stellar magnitude. He further showed that the new planet was likely to be located in one or other of two regions of the sky Gemini or Sagittarius.
Dr. Jackson, of Greenwich, still holds that a body with no small e masa 'could not produce any appre- ciable perturbations in the motion of Uranus, but Dr. Crommelin thinks differently. The new planet's
is one-ninth of that of the earth. This would give perturba- tions which could just be detected when it approached Uranus or Nep the basis of old observations, Lowell tune. Calculating backwards, on found the greatest perturbations to have been in the early eighteenth century; and Crommelin finds that the planet at that time made a very close approach to Uranus. Anyhow, there seems little reason to doubt that the planet found at for which Dr. Lowell was search ing. As Professor Russell says, the coincidences are too many to be acoidental.
the Lowell Observatory is the body
Dwarf Planets,
surement of the two positions of the planet separated by an interval of three years made possible the com- 'putation of a much more accurate
orbit of the new planet than was Dr. Slipher has given to the new possible by means of the Lowell body the name Plato, and as the photographs of this spring alone. discoverer has the right of naming Making use of the Uccle observa a newly-found celestial body, this tion, Dr. Crommelia was able to ¦ name has been accepted. Pluto has compute an oralt for the planet a diameter of less than 4,000 miles: For a number of years past, the which turned out to be surprisingly it is smaller and less massive than planet has been carefully searched similar to the orbi: calculated by Mars, though it would appear to for at the Lowell Observatory, but Lowell. Images the r new planet exceed Mercury in size. It belongs, without success. Not till the early have since been found on plates therefore, to
in the category of degel months of this year did the Lowell | taken at Mount Wilson in Decrm-planets--cald and solid bodirs-and astronomers succeed in detecting in ber, 1910, and this has made posis presumably akin to the earth, the constellation Gemini a faint sible the calculation of an orbit by physical make-up. We have grown Venus, Mars, and Mercury in its moving star-like point which seem- the American astronomers Messrs. so accustomed to think of the solar ed to answer the description of the Nicholson and Mayall. These cal-system as comprising two groups- long-looked for planet, and on March 13 Dr. V. M. Slipher, Dr. culations give an orbit not very Lowell's successor, as director of the different from Lowell's and Crom- observatory, felt sufficiently con-melin's adent to announce the discovery of Lowell's trans-Neptunian planet.
Some Doubts,
Not a Finke.
four large and four arall planets- that this discovery of a fifth small. planet beyond the giant group rather upsets-the symmetry of the system. Is Pluto but the nearest of an external, dwarf group 1. If
BO, discovery of more distant members of such a group will be very dif cult, if not almost impossible.
Eccentric Orbit.
Dr. Crommelin at the June mect Soon after the discovery, how-ing of the Royal Astronomical ever, doubts began to accumulate Society said: "At the April meet- as to whether the newly discovered, ing we thought that Lowell's pre- body was really Lowell's planet at diction was a fuke, but I do not
Опа remarkable circumstance all. That it was a moving body think so now."
Professor H. Nabout the new plaet. is the eccen belonging to the solar system no one
trioity of its orbit. At perihelion could deny, but the suggestion was Russell, the American astronomer, it actually comes just within the made that it might be in reality has come to a similar conclusion, orbit of Neptune; while at aphelion a very distant comet. It was point" The close agreement of date of it is nearly twice as far away. It ed out that a planet as large and perihelion, longitude of perheling, never really comes very close to massive as that postulated by Dr. eccentricity, and period" in Neptune, however, owing to the high Lowell-a body with a diameter of Lowell's hypothetical orbit and the inclination of its orbit. Some of about 16,000 miles ought to be con orbits calculated since the discovery the asteroids have orbits as eccen- siderably brighter than the fifteenth "is beyond what may be reason-tric or more so than this, but nope magnitude, unicas its albedo, arre-ably necribed to chance. The one of the eight planets, properly sa flective capacity, were very low, error, made by Lowell was to over-called, moves in an orbit anything which is highly improbable. And estimate themes.
"He seems,"
like that of. Pluto Doubtless this so the view was widely expressed as Crommelin says, to have locat-high eccentricity and also the high that the planet discovered at the ed the maxima and minima of the inclination are to be explained by. Lowell Observatory WOR
nat i perturbation waves all right, but he the circumstances of the planet's Lowell's planet at all but a much exaggerated their amplitude." origin in the remote past..
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