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THE SUSPECTED INTRA-MERCURIAL PLANET.—M. Leverrier, in a circular addressed to astronomers, has again directed attention to the importance of close and frequent observations of the sun's disc, on March 21, 22, and 23, but especially on the inter, mediate date, with the view to detect the small planet, which he assumes to have been already observed in transit on six occasions, and which there would appear to be just a possibility, may be again projected upon the face of the sun at this time. In his reasoning upon this subject, M. Leverrier adopts for the place of the node, the value he had deduced from the well-known observations of Dr. Lescarbault on March 26, 1859, but the uncertainty attaching to the result renders it impossible to pronounce definitively on the occurrence of a transit in the present month.
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 15, 437–438 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/015437a0
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