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First portion of an April 8, 1802, letter from Zach to Oriani, in which he triumphantly announces that “Pallas is certainly a primary planet; it revolves around the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Ceres… What new creation!”
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Cunningham, C. (2016). The Ceres and Pallas Letters of 1802. In: Early Investigations of Ceres and the Discovery of Pallas. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28815-4_7
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