"probably a crater, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope on Ceres, has been informally named ""Piazzi"". Giuseppe Piazzi Giuseppe Piazzi (; 16 July 1746 – 22 July 1826) was an Italian Catholic priest of the Theatine order, mathematician, and astronomer. He was born in Ponte in Valtellina, and died in Naples. He established an observatory at Palermo, now the ""Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo – Giuseppe S. Vaiana"". Perhaps his most famous discovery was the first dwarf planet, Ceres. No documented account of Piazzi's scientific education is available in any of the biographies of the astronomer, even in the oldest ones."
"city of Palermo, capital of Sicily and location of the Palermo Observatory, where the dwarf planet and first asteroid was discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi on 1 January 1801. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on the 200th anniversary of that discovery on 9 January 2001 (). 10001 Palermo 10001 Palermo, provisional designation , is a Vestian asteroid and a slow rotator from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 8 October 1969, by Soviet–Russian astronomer Lyudmila Chernykh using a 0.4-meter double astrograph at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in"
"This minor planet was named in honour of the English astronomer of German origin William Herschel (1738–1822), who discovered what he called ""Georgium Sidus"" (aka ""Uranus""). While the minor planet with number ""1000"", 1000 Piazzia, honors the discoverer of the first minor planet, Giuseppe Piazzi, number ""2000"" does so for Herschel, discoverer of the first telescopic major planet. The asteroid is one of several early ""kilo-numbered"" minor planets that were dedicated to renowned scientists or institutions including: The sequence continues with the asteroids 5000 IAU (for the International Astronomical Union), 6000 United Nations (for the United Nations), 7000 Curie (for"
"1000 Piazzia 1000 Piazzia, provisional designation """", is a carbonaceous background asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 12 August 1923, by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg Observatory in southern Germany. The C-type asteroid has a rotation period of 9.5 hours. It was named after Italian Giuseppe Piazzi, who discovered 1 Ceres. ""Piazzia"" is a non-family asteroid from the main belt's background population. It orbits the Sun in the outer asteroid belt at a distance of 2.4–4.0 AU once every 5 years and 8 months (2,063 days; semi-major axis of"
"1000 Piazzia for Giuseppe Piazzi (who had discovered Ceres) and finally 1002 Olbersia for Olbers. Olbers recovered Ceres after it has passed behind the Sun and returned. In the next few years only three more astronomical bodies were found between Mars and Jupiter, Pallas, Juno, and 4 Vesta, and it would be 37 years before another asteroid was found, 5 Astraea in 1845. Olbers discovered Pallas and Vesta also. No asteroids were found in 1846, planet Neptune was, but after that more asteroids were found every year including over 300 by the 1890s, when the advent of astronomical photography further"
"published by the MPC on 11 April 1998 (). Antonio Vagnozzi Antonio Vagnozzi (born 1950) is an amateur Italian astronomer and a discoverer of asteroids. Vagnozzi is credited by the Minor Planet Center (MPC) with the discovery of 46 minor planets during 1993–1999. In 1993, he was Italy's first amateur astronomer (and the second discoverer worldwide) to discover a minor planet using a CCD camera. (The first numbered CCD-based discovery was 4255 Spacewatch, which was discovered by the Spacewatch project in 1986). He also searches for supernovae and is a co-discoverer of SN 1996ae. The main-belt asteroid 7529 Vagnozzi was"
"has an albedo of 0.29, while the ""Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link"" assumes a standard albedo for stony asteroids of 0.20 and calculates a diameter of 5.7 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 13.6. This minor planet was named in honor of Antonio Vagnozzi (born 1950), an Italian amateur astronomer, discoverer of minor planets, and pioneer in using CCD cameras at the Santa Lucia Stroncone Astronomical Observatory in Italy. He is also an observer and discoverer of supernovae. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 11 April 1998 (). 7529 Vagnozzi 7529 Vagnozzi, provisional designation ,"
"recorded by observers at the Antelope Hill Observatory, which has been designated as an official observatory by the Minor Planet Center. 363 Padua Padua (minor planet designation: 363 Padua) is a main belt asteroid that was discovered by Auguste Charlois on 17 March 1893 in Nice. It was named after the city of Padova, near Venice, Italy. Richard P. Binzel and Schelte Bus further added to the knowledge about this asteroid in a lightwave survey published in 2003. This project was known as Small Main-belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey, Phase II or SMASSII, which built on a previous survey of the"
"Antonio Vagnozzi Antonio Vagnozzi (born 1950) is an amateur Italian astronomer and a discoverer of asteroids. Vagnozzi is credited by the Minor Planet Center (MPC) with the discovery of 46 minor planets during 1993–1999. In 1993, he was Italy's first amateur astronomer (and the second discoverer worldwide) to discover a minor planet using a CCD camera. (The first numbered CCD-based discovery was 4255 Spacewatch, which was discovered by the Spacewatch project in 1986). He also searches for supernovae and is a co-discoverer of SN 1996ae. The main-belt asteroid 7529 Vagnozzi was named in his honor. The official naming citation was"
"recorded Pallas on a star chart he used to track the path of a comet (now known as C/1779 A1 (Bode)) that he observed in the spring of 1779, but apparently assumed it was nothing more than a star. In 1801, the astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered an object which he initially believed to be a comet. Shortly thereafter he announced his observations of this object, noting that the slow, uniform motion was uncharacteristic of a comet, suggesting it was a different type of object. This was lost from sight for several months, but was recovered later that year by the"
"Japanese Akari satellite and the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, ""Piazzia"" measures between 45.72 and 51.55 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.041 and 0.1119. 1000 Piazzia 1000 Piazzia, provisional designation """", is a carbonaceous background asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 12 August 1923, by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg Observatory in southern Germany. The C-type asteroid has a rotation period of 9.5 hours. It was named after Italian Giuseppe Piazzi, who discovered 1 Ceres. ""Piazzia"" is a non-family asteroid from"
"of the most skilled instrument-makers of the 18th century. The circle was the most important instrument of the Palermo Observatory, whose official foundation took place on 1 July 1790. In 1817, King Ferdinand put Piazzi in charge of the completion of the Capodimonte (Naples) Observatory, naming him General Director of the Naples and Sicily Observatories. He supervised the compilation of the Palermo Catalogue of stars, containing 7,646 star entries with unprecedented precision, including the star names ""Garnet Star"" from Herschel, and the original Rotanev and Sualocin. The work to observe the sky methodically. The catalogue wasn't finished for first edition"
"of hundreds of minor planets made between 1977 ""(see following comment)"" and 2006. He named the asteroids 12848 Agostino and 14973 Rossirosina, in honor of his father Agostino (b. 1932) and his mother, Rosina Rossi Boattini (b. 1934). The minor planet , discovered at the Siding Spring Observatory on 17 September 1977, is credited by the MPC to Andrea Boattini and his older co-discoverer Giuseppe Forti (b. 1939). However Boattini did not co-discover this asteroid on the day after his 8th birthday in 1977, but rather recovered the body from the original observations, referenced as MPS 18832, which were published"
"the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's space-based Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, ""Palazzolo"" has a diameter of 9.9 kilometers and an albedo of 0.083, while the ""Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link"" assumes an albedo of 0.10 and calculates a diameter of 8.0 kilometers. This minor planet is named after the Italian city of Palazzolo sull'Oglio, located between Brescia and Bergamo, in northern parts of the country. Known for its industries, including the first Italian factories producing cement and buttons, the city is now famous for its of spinning machines and zippers. It was founded on the banks of"
"1001 Gaussia Gaussia (minor planet designation: 1001 Gaussia), provisional designation , is a dark background asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 73 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 8 August 1923, by Soviet astronomer Sergey Belyavsky at the Simeiz Observatory on the Crimean peninsula. The asteroid was named after German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. Gauss computed the orbit of Ceres, and 1001 Gaussia was named along with 1000 Piazzia, and 1002 Obelersia in part for their work on Ceres, with names for Giuseppe Piazzi, who found Ceres, and Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, who recovered it"
"323 Brucia (36 km) and 2204 Lyyli (25 km), and larger than 1508 Kemi (17 km), 1474 Beira (15 km) and 1310 Villigera (14 km). This minor planet was named after ""Taurinensis"", the Latin name of the city of Turin, located in northern Italy. It was named in 1905, by astronomers of the Observatory of Turin with the discoverer's endorsement (). The official naming citation was mentioned in ""The Names of the Minor Planets"" by Paul Herget in 1955 (). 512 Taurinensis Taurinensis (minor planet designation: 512 Taurinensis), provisional designation , is a stony asteroid and large Mars-crosser on an"
"published works on the comets of 1807 and 1819. Cacciatore succeeded Piazzi as director of the Palermo Observatory in 1817. As such, his most notable observation was the discovery of globular cluster NGC 6541 on 19 March 1826. The observatory was attacked, and he was imprisoned, during the Sicilian Revolution of 1820, but he survived to restore the facility and lead it for two more decades. In addition to astronomy, he was an expert on meteorology, and wrote a number of books on the subject. Further, after the political troubles of 1820, he served as a member of the legislature"
"word for ten-thousandth, and to honor all astronomers) were named based on their direct numeric accordance. 1000 Piazzia was named as part of trio honoring the events surrounding the discovery of Ceres in 1801. A person named Carl Friedrich Gauss who computed the orbit of Ceres, and Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers who found it again later that year after it has passed behind the Sun. In honor of them, 1001 Gaussia for Gauss and 1002 Olbersia for Olbers were named along with 1000 Piazzia. In the next few years only three more astronomical bodies were found between Mars and Jupiter,"
"Pallas, Juno, and 4 Vesta, however it would be 37 years before another asteroid was found, 5 Astraea in 1845. By 1868, 100 asteroids had been discovered, however it would not be until 1921 that the 1000th was discovered. The rate accelerated in the 20th century and the ten thousandth would be discovered in 1989. In the Tholen- and SMASS-like taxonomy of the Small Solar System Objects Spectroscopic Survey (S3OS2), ""Piazzia"" is a carbonaceous C-type and Cb-subtype, respectively, latter which transitions to the somewhat ""brighter"" B-type asteroids. After ""Piazzia"" had been published by ""The Minor Planet Bulletin"" as an opportunity"
"Explorer, as well as observations by the Keck Observatory and photometric modeling, ""Camilla"" measures between 185 and 247 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.160 and 0.294. 107 Camilla Camilla ( ; minor planet designation: 107 Camilla) is one of the largest asteroids from the outermost edge of the asteroid belt, approximately . It is a member of the Sylvia family and located within the Cybele group. It was discovered on 17 November 1868, by English astronomer Norman Pogson at Madras Observatory, India, and named after Camilla, Queen of the Volsci in Roman mythology. The X-type"
"of the harvest and patron of Sicily. Piazzi initially believed it to be a comet, but its lack of a coma suggested it was a planet. Thus, the aforementioned pattern, now known as the Titius–Bode law, predicted the semi-major axes of all eight planets of the time (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus). Fifteen months later, Heinrich Olbers discovered a second object in the same region, Pallas. Unlike the other known planets, Ceres and Pallas remained points of light even under the highest telescope magnifications instead of resolving into discs. Apart from their rapid movement, they appeared"
"and 0.328. The ""Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link"" adopts the results obtained by IRAS, that is, an albedo of 0.2457 and a diameter of 63.15 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 8.14. This minor planet was named for the region of Veneto with its capital and largest city Venice. The region is located in northeast Italy between the Po River and the Alps. Naming was proposed by Italian astronomer Elia Millosevich. Naming citation was first mentioned in ""The Names of the Minor Planets"" by Paul Herget in 1955 () and amended by Lutz Schmadel for the ""Dictionary of Minor Planet Names"""
"observation was made at the U.S. Lowell Observatory in 1931, when ""Paolicchi"" was identified as , extending its observation arc by 49 years prior to its official discovery observation. It has a rotation period of 20.400 hours and an albedo in the range of 0.04–0.08, according to the surveys carried out by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, IRAS, the Japanese Akari satellite, and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission. The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derives an albedo of 0.05. Estimated diameters for ""Paolicchi"" range between 31.8 and 41.3 kilometers. This minor planet was named in honor of"
"the Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered Ceres and was able to track its path for 40 days before it was lost in the glare of the sun. Based on these data, astronomers desired to determine the location of Ceres after it emerged from behind the sun without solving Kepler's complicated nonlinear equations of planetary motion. The only predictions that successfully allowed Hungarian astronomer Franz Xaver von Zach to relocate Ceres were those performed by the 24-year-old Gauss using least-squares analysis. In 1810, after reading Gauss's work, Laplace, after proving the central limit theorem, used it to give a large sample"
"and 8.5 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.17 and 0.22, respectively, while the ""Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link"" assumes a standard albedo for stony asteroids of 0.20 and calculates a diameter of 9.4 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 12.5. This minor planet was named in honour of the Bernoulli family, a dynasty of mathematicians from the city of Basel, Switzerland. In particular, Jacob Bernoulli (1654–1705), founder of the calculus of variations, Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782), co-founder of hydrodynamics, and Johann Bernoulli (1667–1748), contributor to integral calculus and the teacher of Leonhard Euler, after whom the minor"
"to 0.25. Since asteroids in the inner main-belt are often of a silicaceous rather than of a carbonaceous composition, with higher albedos, typically around 0.20, ""Gorizia""s diameter might be on the lower end of NASA's published conversion table, as the higher the body's reflectivity (albedo), the smaller its diameter, for a given absolute magnitude (brightness). This minor planet was named for the northeastern Italian town of Gorizia, on the occasion of the 1000th anniversary celebrating its first documented mentioning. The discovering observatory, after which the asteroid 7501 Farra was named, is located not far from Gorizia. The official naming citation"
"the same year, Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres. Piazzi could only track Ceres for somewhat more than a month, following it for three degrees across the night sky. Then it disappeared temporarily behind the glare of the Sun. Several months later, when Ceres should have reappeared, Piazzi could not locate it: the mathematical tools of the time were not able to extrapolate a position from such a scant amount of data—three degrees represent less than 1% of the total orbit. Gauss heard about the problem and tackled it. After three months of intense work, he predicted"
"group The Pixies named one of their songs after the asteroid on their album Indie Cindy. 318 Magdalena Magdalena (minor planet designation: 318 Magdalena) is a main belt asteroid orbiting the Sun. It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on 24 September 1891 in Nice. On April 15, 2005 UT Magdalena occulted a 10.7 mag star in the constellation Scutum for observers along a path across Australia. Measurements made with the IRAS observatory give a diameter of 106.08 ± 0.25 km and a geometric albedo of 0.03 ± 0.01. By comparison, the MIPS photometer on the Spitzer Space Telescope gives a"
"Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered Ceres and was able to track its path for 40 days before it was lost in the glare of the sun. Based on these data, astronomers desired to determine the location of Ceres after it emerged from behind the sun without solving Kepler's complicated nonlinear equations of planetary motion. The only predictions that successfully allowed Hungarian astronomer Franz Xaver von Zach to relocate Ceres were those performed by the 24-year-old Gauss using least-squares analysis. In 1810, after reading Gauss's work, Laplace, after proving the central limit theorem, used it to give a large sample justification"
"208 Lacrimosa Lacrimosa (minor planet designation: 208 Lacrimosa) is a main-belt asteroid that was discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa on October 21, 1879, in Pola. The name derives from Our Lady of Sorrows, a title given to Mary, the mother of Jesus. 10µ radiometric data collected from Kitt Peak in 1975 gave a diameter estimate of 42 km for this asteroid. It is classified as an S-type asteroid and is one of the largest members of the Koronis asteroid family. Hence it is probably a piece of the original asteroid that was shattered in an ancient impact that created"
"on 1 January 1801. He was searching for ""the 87th [star] of the Catalogue of the Zodiacal stars of Mr la Caille"", but found that ""it was preceded by another"". Instead of a star, Piazzi had found a moving star-like object, which he first thought was a comet. Piazzi observed Ceres a total of 24 times, the final time on 11 February 1801, when illness interrupted his observations. He announced his discovery on 24 January 1801 in letters to only two fellow astronomers, his compatriot Barnaba Oriani of Milan and Johann Elert Bode of Berlin. He reported it as a"
"363 Padua Padua (minor planet designation: 363 Padua) is a main belt asteroid that was discovered by Auguste Charlois on 17 March 1893 in Nice. It was named after the city of Padova, near Venice, Italy. Richard P. Binzel and Schelte Bus further added to the knowledge about this asteroid in a lightwave survey published in 2003. This project was known as Small Main-belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey, Phase II or SMASSII, which built on a previous survey of the main-belt asteroids. The visible-wavelength (0.435-0.925 micrometre) spectra data was gathered between August 1993 and March 1999. Lightcurve data has also been"
"increased the rate of discovery in coming decades. In the years between 1845 to 1891, 6.9 minor planets were discovered each year, but the rate went to 24.8 from 1891 to 1931. In that time an additional 1191 asteroids were discovered, and the number of numbered minor planets reached well over 1000. The 1000th asteroid was approved in 1921, and the ten thousandth in 1989. 1002 Olbersia Olbersia (minor planet designation: 1002 Olbersia), provisional designation , is an asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 30 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 15 August 1923, by"