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Giuseppe Piazzi
Giuseppe Piazzi
(16 July 1746 – 22 July 1826) was an
Italian
Catholic
priest of the
Theatine order
,
mathematician
, and
astronomer
. He was born in
Ponte in Valtellina
, and died in
Naples
. He established an observatory at
Palermo
, now the
Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo
– Giuseppe S. Vaiana
. Perhaps his most famous discovery was the first dwarf planet,
Ceres
.
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