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New Minor Planet.—A planet, the provisional designation of which is 1929KA, was recently discovered at Heidelberg; it had the unusually rapid motion of 27′ northwards per diem. Dr. G. Stracke gives an ephemeris in Beobachtungs-Zirkular, No. 23; its magnitude is now 13.3 and is slowly diminishing. He states that the rapid motion arises from a combination of great eccentricity and high inclination, the planet being now near perihelion. Its position on July 16 is R.A. 16h 32m.0; N. Decl. 5° 3′. It is then nearly stationary in R.A. and is moving north 5′ daily.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 124, 69 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124069a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/124069a0