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Celestial Police

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Celestial Police

Group of astronomers in Germany between 1800 and 1815, who set out to discover a supposed missing planet thought to be orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter, a region now known to be occupied by types of asteroid. Although they did not discover the first asteroid (found in 1801), they discovered the second, Pallas (1802), third, Juno (1804), and fourth, Vesta (1807).

The group was called together by the German Johann Schroter in 1800 at his observatory in Lilienthal, Germany. They included Hungarian Franz Xaver von Zach, German Heinrich Olbers and Karl Harding.

They decided to split the zodiac into several zones, each of which would be searched by more than one astronomer. The group was disbanded in 1815.



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