Number 42 (Story #1), July 24, 1991 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein A PLANET HAS BEEN DISCOVERED AROUND A NEARBY PULSAR , according to an advance summary of the July 25 issue of Nature. British radio astronomers at Jodrell Bank, the summary says, report that the planet has 10 times the mass of Earth and travels in a 182-day orbit around the pulsar at a radius equivalent to that of Venus about the Sun.