From John Rudge
Some 35 years ago, I found myself sitting in the Reading Room of the British
Museum next to a man who was compiling a list of the coordinates of the aphelia
of long-period comets (the points in their orbits when they are farthest from
the Sun).
I never saw a report of his work in any astronomical journal, but it is now
obvious that he must have found the cluster of preferred directions that your
article suggests is so significant in regard to the possible existence of a
tenth planet
(16 October, p 5).
Do the editors of science journals keep any records of the letters they throw
into bins believing them to come from cranks?
Harlington, Middlesex
