Word: planet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Press, with characteristic gusto, last week continued to lionize the new trans-Neptunian planet (TIME, March 24). Equally characteristic were despatches from England stating that British astronomers doubted the discovery, despatches from Germany referring laconically to "the Comet Lowell," despatches from France stating.that French astronomers had discovered over 100 planetoids during the past year...
Choosing an astronomical symbol for the New Planet is also a problem. Signs of the anciently known planets are conventionalized pictures. Mercury's represents the Caduceus, or head with winged cap; Venus' a looking glass; the Earths its equator and a meridian; Mars', a shield and spear, or a warrior's head with helmet and plume; Jupiter's an eagle; Saturn's a scythe or sickle; Uranus' H for Herschel. with a planet suspended from the crossbar; Neptune's the trident. The first recommended sign for Neptune was a crossbarred L with a planet suspended for Leverrier. That sign might...
...immensity of the solar system can be grasped by considering Augusta, Me., as the sun and Sacramento. Calif., 2,663 air miles away, as the New Planet. Earth would then circle through Portland, Me., Mercury through Wiscasset, Me Venus through Rockland, Me., Mars through Bar Harbor, Me., Jupiter through Bridgeport, Conn., Saturn through Annapolis, Md.; Uranus through Nashville, Tenn., Neptune through Oklahoma City...
...into interstellar space, but was not strong enough to draw them back. They developed their own gravities and took to twirling in nearly circular orbits around the Sun.*They all turn around the Sun in the same direction; and they all, except Uranus and Neptune, and possibly the New Planet, turn on their own polar axis in the same direction. ?Uranus .and Neptune are retrograde. The map shows their approximately relative position as of March 24, as might be seen by an observer on the star nearest to the celestially pretty Solar System, North Star, about 240 million miles...
...Astrologers are professionally joyous over the New Planet's discovery. They blame all their fortune mistellings on its obscurity, now talk of greater accuracy...