Giuseppe Piazzi (US: /ˈpjɑːtsi/ PYAHT-see, Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe ˈpjattsi]; 16 July 1746 – 22 July 1826) was an Italian Catholic priest of the Theatine...
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saint Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932), Italian mathematician Giuseppe Piazzi (1746–1826), Italian Catholic priest, mathematician and astronomer Giuseppe Baudoin...
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footballer Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian Theatine monk, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi (bishop) (1907–1963), Italian bishop Piero Piazzi (born 1963)...
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Ceres (dwarf planet) (category Discoveries by Giuseppe Piazzi)
It was the first known asteroid, discovered on 1 January 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi at Palermo Astronomical Observatory in Sicily, and announced as a new...
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61 Cygni (redirect from Piazzi's Flying Star)
astronomers when its large proper motion was first demonstrated by Giuseppe Piazzi in 1804. In 1838, Friedrich Bessel measured its distance from Earth...
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Giuseppe Piazzi (2 September 1907 – 5 August 1963) was an Italian bishop who led the Diocese of Crema and then the Diocese of Bergamo. Born in Casalbuttano...
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studying mathematics and physics in Palermo, he became acquainted with Giuseppe Piazzi, head of the Palermo Astronomical Observatory, and became a graduate...
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planets and comets. The catalog's first object is 1 Ceres, discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi in 1801, while its best-known entry is Pluto, listed as 134340 Pluto...
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Anne "Annarella" Warington. He was named Piazzi after his godfather, the Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, whose acquaintance his father had made at...
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Piazzi is an impact crater that is located near the southwestern limb of the Moon, and is attached to the southeastern rim of the walled plain Lagrange...
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science and university level. In 1994 she was awarded with the Targa Giuseppe Piazzi for the scientific research, and in 1995 with the Cortina Ulisse Prize...
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search was Giuseppe Piazzi, a Catholic priest at the Academy of Palermo, Sicily. Before receiving his invitation to join the group, Piazzi discovered...
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discovered asteroid Ceres. On 1 January 1801, the Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered Ceres and was able to track its path for 40 days before...
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Oriani was a devoted friend of the Theatine monk Giuseppe Piazzi, the discoverer of Ceres. Oriani and Piazzi worked together for thirty-seven years, cooperating...
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Italian Meeting of Planetary Science, (2000, F. Manca, P. Sicoli) "Giuseppe Piazzi and the Discovery of Ceres", Asteroids III, (2002, G. Fodera' Serio...
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his funeral oration on the death of Daniel O'Connell. The astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi (1746-1826), professor of mathematics and astronomy in Palermo, Sicily...
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months later. Gauss chose the first names of his children in honour of Giuseppe Piazzi, Wilhelm Olbers, and Karl Ludwig Harding, the discoverers of the first...
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asteroid has a rotation period of 9.5 hours. It was named after Italian Giuseppe Piazzi, who discovered 1 Ceres. Piazzia is a non-family asteroid from the...
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Palermo Astronomical Observatory (redirect from Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo "Giuseppe S. Vaiana")
such a peripheral location at the time. In the end the choice fell on Giuseppe Piazzi, a middle-aged mathematician, who before had not particularly distinguished...
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as Herschel's "Garnet Star". Mu Cephei was called Garnet sidus by Giuseppe Piazzi in his catalogue. An alternative name, Erakis, used in Antonín Bečvář's...
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the Sun. [1] 61 Cygni was christened the "Flying Star" in 1792 by Giuseppe Piazzi (1746–1826) for its unusually large proper motion. [2] Sixty-one is:...
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Institute for Astrophysics). In the Observatory of Palermo the astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the first and the largest asteroid to be identified Ceres...
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Sicily, and commissioned by the future director of the Observatory, Giuseppe Piazzi. [..] The vertical circle measures altitude, and the horizontal circle...
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5-feet vertical circle, which was finished in 1789 and was used by Giuseppe Piazzi at the Palermo Astronomical Observatory in constructing his catalogue...
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William Herschel. Following Herschel, it was called garnet sidus by Giuseppe Piazzi. // Gemini PSR B0633+17 Geminga both a contraction of Gemini gamma-ray...
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German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈheːɡl̩]. Unbeknownst to Hegel, Giuseppe Piazzi had discovered the minor planet Ceres within that orbit on 1 January...
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became an astronomical seminary, and amongst his pupils were Delambre, Giuseppe Piazzi, Pierre Méchain, and his own nephew Michel Lalande. By his publications...
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States and the Barbary States of North Africa. Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres. American politician Alexander Hamilton...
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to be between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. On January 1, 1801, Giuseppe Piazzi, chairman of astronomy at the University of Palermo, Sicily, found...
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Charles Messier (Paris) Wilhelm Olbers (Bremen) Barnaba Oriani (Milan) Giuseppe Piazzi (Palermo) Johann Hieronymus Schröter (Lilienthal) Theodor von Schubert...
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