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...drapeau!" he commanded. Rifles slapped to the salute. Buglers twirled their trumpets in the air, blew a fanfare, anti as the band crashed into "La Marseillaise" the French tricolor that had flown over German Mainz for nearly twelve years slipped slowly down the flagstaff. With as little commotion as possible the 8th Infantry scurried clanking through the streets, quickly entrained for Cherbourg. At the station a sudden irrepressible storm of boos and catcalls from the German populace sped them on their...
Pluto was the name announced by Roger Lowell Putnam, spokesman for Lowell observatory (Flagstaff, Ariz.) as having been chosen for the New Planet discovered from there this year (TIME. March 24). "We felt . . . that the line of Roman gods for whom the other planets are named should not be broken," explained Mr. Putnam...
...many years the astronomers at the Lowell Observatory, which Percival Lowell built with his own money at clear-aired Flagstaff, Ariz., have been pointing their telescopes to the path in the skies where he had said his planet would be moving. The night of last Jan. 21, Clyde W. Tombaugh, 24, an assistant at the observatory, saw a strange blotch of light on a new plate. He hastily took the photograph to Vesto Melvin Slipher, director of the observatory. Dr. Slipher joyfully notified his younger brother, Earl Carl Slipher, and the rest of the staff, including Carl Otto Lampland. They...
...Flagstaff, Arizona, March 15--Among the numerous suggestions for a name for the new planet which have been received here is that of Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, who offers "Kronos", appellation of the mythological father of the six principal Greek gods. R. L. Putnam has suggested "Constance" in honor of the discoverer's widow, a name connoting the firmness of Dr. Lowell's conviction that the planet existed. Other choices being considered are "Percival" and "Atlas...
...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...