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| | Hypothetical Planets |
 | | All in all, from 1908 to 1932, Pickering proposed seven hypothetical planets -- O, P, Q, R, S, T and U. His final elements for O and P define completely different bodies than the orginal ones, so the total can be set at nine, certainly the record for planetary prognostication. |
 | | The new planet, later named Pluto, turned out to be disappointingly small, perhaps only one Earth mass put probably only about 1/10 Earth masses or smaller (in 1979, when Pluto's satellite Charon was discovered, the mass of the Pluto-Charon pair turned out to be only about 1/1000 Earth mass!). |
 | | This hypothetical "death companion" of the Sun was suggssted in 1985 by Daniel P. Whitmire and John J. Matese, Univ of Southern Lousiana. |
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