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2006-07-13 02:38:47 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The first asteroid was discovered in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi in an observatory in Sicily. This is still the largest known asteroid today. He named it Ceres, after the Sicilian goddess of grain. Three others were discovered in the next few years (Pallas, Vesta, and Juno)
The main asteroid belt is a region of the solar system between t Mars and Jupiter where the greatest concentration of asteroid orbits can be found and theroy has it they were prevented from forming a planet by the gravitational force of Jupiter
2006-07-13 02:51:50 · answer #1 · answered by Karen B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Telescopes Mainly
2006-07-13 03:15:29 · answer #2 · answered by savvy s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Photos taken of the night sky over time showed moving "stars." In earlier times, they were observed with the naked eye or by telescope and drawn on a map of the night sky. Over time, those observing could track the movement of the objects and discovered they were not stars by small object orbiting our sun.
2006-07-13 02:43:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
asteroids r discovered when they came into the orbits of neptune & urenus & deviating the path of those planets the spectral lines of the sunlight r in the colour of yellow & green mixed with red showing that the chemical property of sand and dust particle s of peculiar chamical so the scientist thought that it must blike the planets & they r named as asteorids in the year 1789 {like that in arond 18th century}
2006-07-13 02:48:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ughug the caveman saw Ooga get hit and killed by one. lol
2006-07-13 02:43:16 · answer #5 · answered by R C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They saw them
2006-07-13 02:40:21 · answer #6 · answered by Blunt Honesty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not discovered
just manufactured as energy components
2006-07-13 02:41:45 · answer #7 · answered by miths 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋