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Explores how various astronomers tried to verify Piazzi’s discovery. There was great difficulty in doing so, until the orbit was correctly described by Gauss. Baron von Zach finally located it in his Seeberg Observatory in Germany. The chapter also contains an essay written by Brian Marsden in 2001 on the 200th anniversary of the discovery of Ceres.
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Cunningham, C. (2016). The Recovery of Ceres. In: Discovery of the First Asteroid, Ceres. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21777-2_3
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