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the priest-astronomer who found a planet, lost it, and gave math a reason to grow up.
means giuseppe piazzi was the italian astronomer who discovered ceres in 1801, the first known asteroid, briefly mistaken for a planet.
from on january 1, 1801, piazzi spotted a faint moving object from palermo observatory while cataloguing stars, tracked it for weeks, then lost it behind the sun before enough data existed to predict its orbit.
gauss connectioncarl gauss used piazzi's data to relocate ceres mathematically
day one finddiscovered ceres on the first day of the 19th century
named it himselfchose ceres after sicily's patron goddess of grain
crater honora moon crater and asteroid 1000 piazzi bear his name