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| | Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, September 19, 1813July 18, 1890 | By William Sheehan | Biographical Memoirs |
 | | It was the fifth asteroid discovered in North America (others had been found by Ferguson and Searle). |
 | | Feronia was the first of forty-eight such discoveries that made Peters the most prolific finder of minor planets of his generation, and even today he remains second only to Johann Palisa among visual discoverers of asteroids. |
 | | During his colorful career, he also compiled meticulous star charts of the zodiac, collated observations from manuscripts of Ptolemy, and embroiled himself in a series of often bitter controversies with other astronomers, notably over the existence of an intra-Mercurial planet. |
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