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...Planet, Percival Lowell s wife, who still lives in Beacon Street. Boston, last week suggested Percival. She rejected Lowell as being fixed to too many notable institutions?the Lowell Observatory, the Lowell Institute, the City of Lowell, etc. etc. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, suggested Cronos, son of Uranus and father ot Zeus Astrologers recommended variously I sis, Vulcan, Lilith.* Choice lies with the Lowell Observatory...
...Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard College Observatory, yesterday announced that the trans-Neptunlan planet which was recently discovered by the Lowell Observatory, has been photographed by means of the Observatory's 16-inch Metcalf reflector...
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...
Both these papers, Shapley's and Lundmark's, are of vast importance in a reorganization of our idea of the extent of space, fixing a limit of which is as yet beyond human comprehension, according to Lundmark, who reports that the spiral nebulae which he has been examining are by no means the farthest objects from earth in the universe...
...Shapley's most recent research has been concerned with variable stars in the large Magellanic cloud. This cloud seems to be another system rather like the one in which we are whirled about Sagittarius. Dr. Shapley has found, by examination of the Cepheids variables in this cloud that the light from certain ones waxes and wanes, the period which the change in brightness takes having a direct relation, through the average brightness, to the distance of the Cepheids from us. In this way he has calculated that the large Magellanic cloud is 86,000 light years away from...