Vesta was discovered in 1807 by the Bremen physicist and astronomer Heinrich Olbers. By the end of the nineteenth century, astronomers could proudly point to 463 recorded asteroids. Instead of a ...
Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 1 (1800 - 1814), p. 270 (1 page) ...
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres' south polar region on May 17, 2017.