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Giuseppe Piazzi
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Piazzi, Giuseppe 

Born July 16, 1746, in Ponte di Valtel-lina; died July 22, 1826, in Naples. Italian astronomer.

Piazzi was appointed a professor at the University of Palermo in 1780 and became the first director of the observatory at Palermo in 1791. In 1801 he discovered the first known asteroid —Ceres. He compiled two star catalogs (1803, 1814).

REFERENCE

Clerke, A. Obshchedostupnaia istoriia astronomii v XIX stoletii. Odessa, 1913. (Translated from English.)


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The first asteroid ever discovered was Ceres, seen on January 1, 1801 by Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi.
ON THE FIRST DAY of the nineteenth century, an Italian astronomer by the name of Piazzi discovered the asteroid Ceres, one of the thousands of minor planets revolving around the sun in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
Just imagine yourself hanging out in Piazzi di Trevi, sipping a cappuccino with it slung casually over your shoulder.
 
 
 
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