From mcmahon@maple.lemoyne.edu Thu Dec 21 04:13:39 2000 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id EAA347034 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 04:13:38 -0800 Received: from MAPLE.lemoyne.edu (maple.lemoyne.edu [192.231.122.100]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id EAA14442 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 04:13:35 -0800 Received: from maple.lemoyne.edu by maple.lemoyne.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #33655) id <01JXYHGGF34Y002W0E@maple.lemoyne.edu> for CLASSICS@U.WASHINGTON.EDU; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 07:12:58 EDT Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 07:12:57 -0400 (EDT) From: John McMahon Subject: Ceres/Piazzi To: CLASSICS@U.WASHINGTON.EDU Reply-to: John McMahon Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Scripsit GP: > The 200th anniversary of the discovery of the first asteroid, > Ceres, will be on January 1, 2001. The discovery was made on the > first night of the 19th century by the Sicilian astronomer Piazzi. > His reason for selecting the name Ceres should be obvious to any > classicist. All you wanted you wanted to know about Piazzi, Bode's Law, etc. -- pictures, too: www.astropa.unipa.it/Asteroids2001/index.html John McMahon Le Moyne College .