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Regardless the discovery made the discovers famous in no small part due to the NYT hilariously repeating Lowells statements of certainty. It was only later that someone, after centuries of assuming it's correctness, checked the math used re the orbits and discovered it was wrong. The anomaly doesn't exist. It should remain a planet to remind us of the way hubris, money, delusions and celebrity, while not part of the scientific method, continue to distort it's orbit. (2/3)