The search for Planet X

At a time when we are finding planets by the hundred orbiting stars other than our own, it is worth recalling the last time when the number in the Sun’s family last increased by just a single digit. That was on February 18, 1930. Such an increase had occurred twice before: in 1781 when William Herschel first spied Uranus, adding to the five planets known to the ancients (six including the Earth), and then in 1846, when