"Ever since celestial mechanics in the skillful hands of Leverrier and Adams led to the world-amazed discovery of Neptune, a belief has existed begotten of that success that still other planets lay beyond, only waiting to be found."

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Source : Percival Lowell, Lowell Observatory (1915). “Memoir on a trans-Neptunian planet”

Percival Lowell

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