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The 1788 painting of Wilhelm Olbers, discoverer of Pallas, by Jacob Fehrmann

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Cunningham, C. (2016). The Discovery of Pallas. In: Early Investigations of Ceres and the Discovery of Pallas. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28815-4_5

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