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Presents the extensive correspondence between German astronomers Gauss and Olbers about Ceres in the early 1800s plus some letters from Bode to Gauss.
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Three notable comets appeared in the year 1618. See Drake and O’Malley (1960).
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Cunningham, C. (2016). Letters Between Olbers and Gauss. In: Discovery of the First Asteroid, Ceres. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21777-2_12
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