The Little Prince (13)

The Little Prince (13)

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  I had thus learned a second fact of great importance : this was that the planet the little prince came from was scarcely any larger than a house.

  But that did not really surprise me much.

  I knew very well that in addition to the great planets ー such as the Earth, Jupiter, Marsh Venus ー to which we have given names, there are also hundreds of others, some of which are so small that one has a hard time seeing them through the telescope.

  When an astronomer discovers one of these he does not give it a name, but only a number.

  He might call it, for example, " Asteroid 325."

  I have serious to believe that the planet from which the little prince came is the asteroid known as B-612.

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