Asteroid belt
History of asteroid belt
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lasrus
Scientist first glimpsed the asteroid belt in 1766. For many decades they thought the large asteroid they were seeing was a planet. They called it Ceres.
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In 1807 other asteroids were discovered near Ceres, but the Napoleonic wars stopped the investigation. It resumed in 1845.
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