In the 16th century, Tycho Brahe started to begin understanding the accurate position of the planets in the sky. Then there was Baron Franz Zaver von Zach who was really the most interested in this search and he would stay up much of the time at night to scan the sky. On January 1, 1801, one of the other observers named Giuseppe Piazzi saw a Star that was dim and it was not on his charts, and that star had moved next night. Piazzi would continue to observe even through the bad weather and until illness brought him to a close of finding a planet. Piazzi soon realized that he had found a minor planet even though the appearance of the object was not comet-like. C.F. Gauss was the guy that came up with a mathematical way to break down how the orbit from the limited tracking available. Zach used Gauss’s orbital calculation to discover this new celestial body in the asteroid belt that was named Ceres later on. Shortly the study for the next discovery opportunity came in 2000 for MBAR mission, and after completing the investigation of Vesta then it was found that Vesta and Ceres had approached each other quite often that it might be possible to reach Ceres and orbit it. (Reference 5,
In the 16th century, Tycho Brahe started to begin understanding the accurate position of the planets in the sky. Then there was Baron Franz Zaver von Zach who was really the most interested in this search and he would stay up much of the time at night to scan the sky. On January 1, 1801, one of the other observers named Giuseppe Piazzi saw a Star that was dim and it was not on his charts, and that star had moved next night. Piazzi would continue to observe even through the bad weather and until illness brought him to a close of finding a planet. Piazzi soon realized that he had found a minor planet even though the appearance of the object was not comet-like. C.F. Gauss was the guy that came up with a mathematical way to break down how the orbit from the limited tracking available. Zach used Gauss’s orbital calculation to discover this new celestial body in the asteroid belt that was named Ceres later on. Shortly the study for the next discovery opportunity came in 2000 for MBAR mission, and after completing the investigation of Vesta then it was found that Vesta and Ceres had approached each other quite often that it might be possible to reach Ceres and orbit it. (Reference 5,