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Friedrich Bessel (Fig. 6.1) and Gauss maintained an active correspondence about the asteroids for decades. Bessel became Schroeter’s assistant in 1806, and in 1810 was appointed Director of Koenigsberg Observatory in Prussia. Their letters dealing with Ceres and Pallas were published in Early Studies of Pallas in the Nineteenth Century. Here is a selection of letters from 1805 to 1820 regarding Juno. They were originally published in German in Anon (1880). When the letters were published, a notice in The Saturday Review (1880: 781) had this to say about it:
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The Saturday Review, 50, p. 781, (1880, December 18).
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Cunningham, C.J. (2017). Letters: Bessel with Gauss and Olbers. In: Bode’s Law and the Discovery of Juno. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32875-1_6
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