The Washington times., 1919-12-30

While you sleeping these nights of
men are looking for world
5ee The probabilities are that they will find it
= For fifty years it has been very definitely
Known that somewhere outside the orbit of Neptune whose
mean distance from the earth about three billion miles,
thsrs another planet wholly invisible the eye
vhen aided by the most powerful telescope.
But scientists have found that inanimate photo
graphic plate registers objects accurately that the
lna OF the human eye With the aid of photography
hoped within few days to establish the truth of the
existence of another planet
There is greater than the romance of the
LES Astronomy probably the oldest of all sciences. In
China Egypt and Babylona there recorded prehistoric
sdences of crude observations of the stars and thousands
years before the Christian the Emperor of China
promulgated orders based upon the motions of the heavenly
bodies
One of the results of the world war will be- if China
demands satisfied the by Germany to Pekng of
astronomical instruments constructed before the time of
Kublai Khan, anedatng European inventions of similar
nature by more than three hundred years.
- Two of the eight major planets with which we are
acquainted have been discovered in modern times Uranus
" Herschel in 1871 and Neptune by DArrest in 1846
Uranus had long been observed star before was
eetsrmined that it planet with fixed motions and al
diameter four times greater than that of the earth
The existence of Nept2ne was known for many years
before 1t The orbit of Uranus evidenced that
some force outside of exered influence on its motions
was as if You suspended steel ball from the ceiling
md then brought near it, but concealed from view strong
4ue W0ulo move the magnet
would know although you could see its source that
some force was drawing the ball of its position
30 accurate have astronomical mathematics become that
scientists can compute the position of planet which thew
have never The position in which Neptune was finally
found to be had been very definitely established by both
Adams and Leveer before the telescope showed visiby
that the planet existed.
What happened in the Neptune is being
IN the case of the planet for which astronomical world
now looking For than fifty years such body has
been known to have existence and since 1877 repeated
efforts have been made to find it.
The present relative positions of the astronomical bodies
e believed to be especially favorable for the observations
BY camera, and success is expected.
there is another world where the astronomers have
calculated this one to be- what is it like?
1t Is 50 far away that if there are people there they
cannot see this earth unless they have telescopes many
times stronger than ours
What is life there like? Do they eat and sleen and
love and hate do have they progressed more than
we poor mortals?
What they beyond them when thew look into
the vast depths of the skies?
Are there other and worlds of which we shall
never know, or is there limit to the universe?
The astronomers will look at their plates and if thew
See tiny line where they think the planet should he bov
VII announce as great discovery and the world will
applaud their patience and wisdom But the discovery ~
one planet like the finding by child of pebble on the
seashore We know little of ourselves and 50
fraction OF the great multitude of facts
m When the Lord spoke Job out of the wbirlwind u
asked him great many questions that he could not answer
How much wiser than he? Shall man ever be able
to answer than very few of the questions that
IN upon his poor, finite mind?
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