The Prescott daily news., 1909-01-09
SEACHING FOR
 THE NEW PLANET Astronomers Think the NObblins of Neptune is Caused by Ninth
 Member of Solar System.
January,

Neptune WabbIed from it's reg ular path around the sun and now astronomers are looking for a ninth path.
 The newest member Of the solar system according to the nebular hypothesis must be the oldest. aud i5 revolving m the depths of space sOmeW here NC- yond Neptune.
 No eye has seen it, nor 2s lar as known has it's image been imprinted on any photographic plate. According to the d.ctum that the quality of existence consists n being perceived Prof. w. H. Pickering of Harvard Un- ivers.ty who interprets the CT ratio actions of Neptune a. due to the influence Of a hitherto un- known planet, is r.ght in deny ing he has discovered the sus- pected body.
 But Prof Pickering calculates that a ninth planetary body does exist and from its effect on Nep- tune has figured out it's position in space. Photographic telescopes are now being trained on that point and the discovery Of the latest addition to the soar sys- tenn is confidently expected.
 Neptune was added to the list of known planets when astron- omers perceived certain wab- blings on the part of Uranus. In 1S42 the French astronomer, Le- verrier while seeking to learn the cause of Uranus digressions from it's orbit, figured out that it's actions were due to the ln- fluence of an unknown planet.
 He calculated the position of the body and the Astronomer Galle trained his telescope on the point n space. In a half hour Neptune was discovered.
 Now Neptune is not following the marrow path" around the sun so conscientiously as it should according to astronomers and they believe it is being led astray by another. Maybe Nep- tune found a leak in the 'lid," but the men who chart the skies and to whom the Milky Way is as ia mil:ar as Olive street, refuse to consider that hypothesis.
 Prof Pickering says the ninth major planet according to his calculations th:s year will be far to the north, in right ascension 7 hours and f minutes and in de- clinat.on p.us 21 degrees. (What- ever that isl Judging from it's slight effect on Neptune the per turbatiOn n the orbit Of that planet being only a few seconds of arc he says the new member of the solar ystem is cOmpara- lively small.
 But slight a. s this wabbing of Neptune Prof. Pickering say $ it could be caused only by anoth- CT planet and as a result the credentials Of the suspected mem bar of tha solar ystem are ad- mitted to be, regular before tDeI' DtdItE udS bbcu SCtIl.
 At the Naval Observatory at Washington the view is taken that if perturbat.ons of Neptune indicate the existence of a ninth major planet, the addition to the charts of the solar system must be of vast proportions. The point is made that if the mysterious solar body is so far away as not to have been discovered by means of telescopes it must be of great size in order visibly to affect a planet of the bulk of Neptune.
 That the new planet is either very remote or very small is a summing up of the conclusions of the astronomers with regard to the discovery of Prof. Picker ing
 The discovery of Neptune has long been regarded as the great est triumph of mathematical as- tronomy. Slight variations by Uranus from its regular orbit supplied data enough for astron- omers to calculate the exact pos ition of the planet, The name Harvard" has been suggested