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- A group of astronomers in Germany 1800-15,
- who set out to discover a supposed missing
- planet thought to be orbiting the Sun between
- Mars and Jupiter, a region now known to be
- occupied by types of asteroid. Although they
- did not discover the first asteroid (found
- 1801), they discovered the second, Pallas
- (1802), third, Juno (1804), and fourth, Vesta
- (1807). The first asteroid was actually
- discovered by the Italian Giuseppe Piazzi at
- the Palermo Observatory, Sicily, 1 Jan 1801.
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