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NEW MINOR PLANETS.—A Central News telegram of Tuesday states that the Transvaal Observatory reports the discovery of two minor planets. The discovery was made during an attempt to photograph the eighth satellite of Jupiter. The following are the positions of the new planetoids:-No. i, R.A. 14h. 4im., Dec. 12° 34′ S.; No. 2, R.A. 14h. 48m., Dec. 15° 18′ S. It is stated that these are the first minor planets found by an observatory south of the equator.
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 86, 322–323 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086322a0
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