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Named minor planets
PlutoOn the 18th of February 1930, Clyde Tombaugh spotted a faint moving point of light on photographic plates taken at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
4 VestaHeinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered 4 Vesta on the 29th of March 1807 in the constellation Virgo. This event marked the fourth object found in what…
25143 ItokawaAstronomers with the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research program spotted a faint point of light on the 26th of September 1998.
Ceres (dwarf planet)Giuseppe Piazzi, a Catholic priest at the academy of Palermo in Sicily, spotted a moving starlike object on the 1st of January 1801.
243 IdaAustrian astronomer Johann Palisa spotted 243 Ida on the 29th of September 1884 from his post at Vienna Observatory. This marked his forty-fifth asteroid…
951 GaspraRussian astronomer G. N. Neujmin spotted 951 Gaspra in the year 1916. He chose a name that honored a specific place on Earth rather than a mythological…
433 ErosOn the 13th of August 1898, Carl Gustav Witt stood at the Berlin Urania Observatory. He was taking a two-hour exposure of beta Aquarii to secure astrometric…