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1. Ceres (dwarf Planet)

   Linked via "least squares"

   Discovery and Nomenclature
   Ceres was discovered on 1 January 1801 by the Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi in Palermo, Sicily. Piazzi observed it over several nights but lost sight of it due to the limitations of contemporary telescopes and the intervening glare of the Sun/). The initial observations spurred intense mathematical interest, as its position was highly uncertain. It was Carl Friedrich Gauss who, utilizing an innovative application of the method of least squares, su…