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Ceres descubierto.(descubrimiento del asteroide Ceres Ferdinandea por el astrónomo Giuseppe Piazzi)(Artículo breve)
Magazine article from: Contenido; 1/1/2006; 534 words
; 1801:1 de enero El astrnomo siciliano Giuseppe Piazzi descubre el primer asteroide, al que llam Ceres Ferdinandea en honor de la diosa romana de las plantas y el amor maternal y patrona...
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A Rocky Bicentennial.(conference addresses asteroids)
Magazine article from: Science News; 7/28/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...nightfall on Jan. 1, 1801, that Giuseppe Piazzi pointed his state-of-the-art...observed an unfamiliar point of light. Piazzi thought the object might be a new...something better than a comet," Piazzi told a colleague a few weeks later...
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Vagabonds in Space
Magazine article from: Natural History; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...on that first day of 1801, the Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, founder of the Observatory of Palermo, discovered...had led to the discovery of a new celestial object. Piazzi himself named it Ceres (as in "cereal"), for the...
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Word of the week: asteroid
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 4/6/2002; ; 631 words
; ...relatively recent. On the first day of January 1801, a monk in Palermo, Sicily, one Giuseppe Piazzi, saw in his telescope an object like a small planet. Piazzi named it Ceres, after the Sicilian goddess of grain. By the end of the 19th century...
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SMALL SOLAR SYSTEM DENIZEN GETS BIG CHANCE TO SHINE
Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times & World News; 8/27/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...On Jan. 1, 1801, the Italian astronomer Father Giuseppe Piazzi stumbled across an unknown object. At first he thought...Mars and Jupiter, he concluded it was a new planet. Piazzi named it Ceres. Oddly, Ceres appeared starlike even...
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TWINKLE, TWINKLE LITTLE SCAM
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/19/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...Delphinus, first appeared in the Palermo Catalogue compiled by the astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi in 1814. The names puzzled experts until someone remembered that Piazzi had an assistant, Niccolo Cacciatore (in Latin, Nicolaus Venator), whose...
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Rock around the planets
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 3/13/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...On New Year's Day, 1801, an Italian monk named Giuseppe Piazzi, working at the Palermo Observatory, detected a faint...because of its position relative to the sun. The pinpoint Piazzi was tracking was eventually named Ceres, the largest...
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Numerical patterns in nature.
Magazine article from: World and I; 5/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...search the sky. Ironically, success came not to someone in the group but to the Sicilian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, on January 1, 1801. Piazzi discovered a small object that seemed to be the missing planet, and he named it Ceres--after the...
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Science: stars and planets january
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/5/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...ago, on 1 January 1801, an Italian astronomer called Giuseppe Piazzi discovered a new world orbiting the Sun. But was it...police" to search for the missing body. In the event, Piazzi (not a member of the "police") got there first...
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Close encounters
Magazine article from: Natural History; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...among professional and amateur astronomers alike. Ever since January 1, 1801, when Italian monk and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered a relatively small celestial object he later christened Ceres, asteroids have been the orphans of the...
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Giuseppe Piazzi
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Giuseppe Piazzi , 1746-1826, Italian astronomer, a Theatine priest from 1769. He became (1781) professor of mathematics at the Univ. of...
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Piazzi, Giuseppe
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
PIAZZI, GIUSEPPE ( b . Ponte in Valtellina, Italy [now...July 1826) astronomy. As a young man, Piazzi entered the Theatine Order in Milan...and mathematics. From 1769 until 1779 Piazzi taught mathematics in a number of Italian...
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Asteroids
Book article from: World of Earth Science
...for the mystery planet. Father Giuseppe Piazzi (1746–1826), was...observed it over several nights. Piazzi discovered that the body moved relative...largest asteroid in the solar system, Piazzi gave this object the name of Ceres...
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Gauss, Karl Friedrich
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...up a new line of research by updating the definition of a prime number. Astronomical calculations The discovery by Giuseppe Piazzi of the asteroid Ceres in 1801 increased Gauss's interest in astronomy, and upon the death of the Duke of Brunswick...
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Karl Friedrich Gauss
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...originality that it is often regarded as marking the beginning of the modern theory of numbers. The discovery by Giuseppe Piazzi of the asteroid Ceres in 1801 stimulated Gauss's interest in astronomy, and upon the death of his patron, the...
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