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...advertising, he sits on Chicago's Board of Education. His interest in public affairs derives from his long friendship with Indiana's late Democratic Boss Tom Taggart. Boss Taggart controlled French Lick Springs, and the McJunkin Agency still has its account (though it lately lost the Associated Pluto Water business to H. W. Kastor & Sons...
...star which exploded of its own accord. The prevailing hypothesis is Dr. Forest Ray Moulton's as modified by Sir James Hopwood Jeans, namely, that a big star once passed near a small star (which men call the Sun), and caused some tidal eruptions, which became planets. Pluto an Accident. It was just a 'lucky accident" that the newest planet Pluto was located where the late Percival Lowell figured that it would be (TIME, March 24, 1930), declared A. A. S.'s retiring president, Professor Ernest William Brown of Yale. Pluto, he thinks, is not heavy enough...
Twenty-two years ago Professor Pickering first became aware of an immense heavenly body beyond the known superior planets. He knew that the object of his search was huge, thought he would call the planet Pluto when he was sure of its existence. When Lowell's Planet X came along and got that name, the putative Pickering planet was then called Planet...
...made known in 1928. Now, however, Professor Pickering has estimated not only its orbit (an ellipse whose distance from the sun varies between 5,000 and 9,000 million mi.) but its diameter (44,000 mi.). It is twice as far from the sun as far-flung Pluto, is the third most massive of the sun's family, exceeded only by Jupiter and ringed Saturn. Its sidereal period: 656 years...
...from the sun 92,900,000 mi.) could exist beyond modern astronomers' knowledge. They long ago would have spied it with their telescopes, if not with their unaided eyes. Or they would have calculated its existence, as the late Percival Lowell calculated the existence of the unseen planet Pluto (TIME, June 2, 1930) from the perturbations it caused in the orbits of the known planets. Questioning cables went to Japan...