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Hypothetical Planets

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In the long history of astronomical observation, there have been many errors, but claiming to find a new planet when there really isn’t one is certainly a mistake greater than most.

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    Clifford J. Cunningham

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Cunningham, C.J. (2017). Hypothetical Planets. In: Studies of Pallas in the Early Nineteenth Century. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32848-5_5

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