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A group of astronomers in Germany 1800-15,
who set out to discover a supposed missing
planet thought to be orbiting the Sun between
Mars and Jupiter, a region now known to be
occupied by types of asteroid. Although they
did not discover the first asteroid (found
1801), they discovered the second, Pallas
(1802), third, Juno (1804), and fourth, Vesta
(1807). The first asteroid was actually
discovered by the Italian Giuseppe Piazzi at
the Palermo Observatory, Sicily, 1 Jan 1801.