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	Piazzi (crater) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Piazzi is a lunar crater that is located near the southwestern limb of the Moon, and is attached to the southeast rim of the Lagrange walled plain.
		Piazzi crater is observed at a low angle from the Earth, and it appears oblong due to foreshortening.
		The outer rim of the crater is irregular and eroded, and a few small craters lie within the uneven interior.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piazzi_(crater) (206 words)

	Piazzi Smyth (crater): Just the facts... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Piazzi Smith is a small lunar (additional info and facts about lunar) impact crater (additional info and facts about impact crater) in the eastern part of the Mare Imbrium (additional info and facts about Mare Imbrium).
		To the southeast of this crater is the Mons Piton (additional info and facts about Mons Piton), an isolated mountain that rises to a height of 2.3 km and occupies a diameter of about 25 km.
		This crater is a nicely circular feature with a rim and interior that have not been significantly modified by impacts.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pi/piazzi_smyth_(crater).htm (227 words)

	Giuseppe Piazzi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was not able to observe it long enough (it was soon lost in the glare of the Sun) to compute its orbit with existing methods, but the renowned mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss developed a new method of orbit calculation that allowed astronomers to locate it again.
		After its orbit was better determined, it was clear that Piazzi's assumption was correct and this object was not a comet but more like a small planet.
		Piazzi named it "Ceres Ferdinandea", after the Classical Greek and Sicilian goddess of grain and King Ferdinand IV of Naples and Sicily.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Giuseppe_Piazzi (534 words)

	1 Ceres - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Piazzi was searching for the star listed by Francis Wollaston as Mayer 87 because it was not in Mayer's zodiacal catalogue in the position given (iteventually transpired that Wollaston had made a mistake —the star was in fact Lacaille 87).
		Instead, Piazzi found a movingstar-like object, which he thought at first was a comet.
		Piazzi observed Ceres until February 11, when illness interrupted.
	www.world-knowledge-encyclopedia.com /?t=1_Ceres (630 words)

	Piazzi Smyth (crater) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Piazzi Smith is a small lunar impact crater in the eastern part of the Mare Imbrium.
		To the southeast of this crater is the Mons Piton, an isolated mountain that rises to a height of 2.3 km and occupies a diameter of about 25 km.
		Piazzi Smyth (crater), Satellite craters and Craters on the Moon.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Piazzi_Smyth_%28crater%29 (209 words)

	Lagrange (crater) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Lagrange is a lunar crater that is attached to the northwestern rim of Piazzi crater.
		It lies near the southwest limb of the Moon, and the appearance is oblong due to foreshortening.
		As a result only the northeast part of the crater is somewhat intact; the remainder just forms an uneven depression in the surface that is covered in long ridges and gouges.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Lagrange_%28crater%29 (256 words)

	1 Ceres
		It was discovered on January 1, 1801, by Giuseppe Piazzi, and originally named Ceres Ferdinandea after both the mythological figure Ceres (Roman goddess of plants and motherly love) and King Ferdinand III of Sicily (a.k.a.
		Piazzi was searching for the star listed by Francis Wollaston as Mayer 87 because it was not in Mayer's zodiacal catalogue in the position given, and found a moving star-like object.
		Ceres is the largest known asteroid in the traditional asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/1/1_/1_ceres.html (605 words)

	1 Ceres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Piazzi observed Ceres a total of 24 times, the final time on February 11, when illness interrupted.
		On 24 January 1801, Piazzi announced his discovery in letters to fellow astronomers, among them his fellow countryman, Barnaba Oriani of Milan.
		Low resolution ultraviolet Hubble Space Telescope images taken in 1995 showed a dark spot on its surface which was nicknamed "Piazzi" in honour of the discoverer of Ceres.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1_Ceres (1573 words)

	1 Ceres
		The space rock was identified in 1801 by astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, a monk in Sicily and the founding director of the Palermo Astronomical Observatory.
		After discovering the asteroid, Piazzi was invited to join the Celestial Police, a group of 24 international astronomers looking for what they called "guest planets" between Mars and Jupiter.
		In July 2001, a larger object was found in the vast Kuiper belt of asteroids, stretching from 30 to 100 AU This brightest and therefore biggest non-planet space rock, 2001 KX76, could be anywhere from 960 to 1270 kilometers (600 to 790 miles) across.
	www.geocities.com /zlipanov/selected_asteroids/1_ceres/1_ceres.html (471 words)

	1 Ceres (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Piazzi was searching for the star listed by Francis Wollaston as Mayer 87 because it was not in Mayer's zodiacal catalogue in the position given (it eventually transpired that Wollaston had made a mistake —the star was in fact Lacaille 87).
		Instead, Piazzi found a moving star-like object, which he thought at first was a comet.
		Keck was able to resolve two large, dark albedo features, probably impact craters.
	hallencyclopedia.com /1_Ceres (950 words)

	Observing the Sky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		South of Grimaldi, the fused craters of Cruger and Darwin appear as an elongated and rugged teardrop shape, the floor(s) of which are almost all sunlit.
		Of the craters of Piazzi and Inghirami further south, the latter has a much better defined crater rim which allows for some 1/3 of its interior to be shaded on its west side.
		Giant crater Bailly dominates the southern cusp, and its west and south rim are all visible, though in fl shade within, while a rugged still-illuminated floor joins the advancing terminator.
	www.observingthesky.org /index.php?m=20040813 (600 words)

	Mons Piton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mons Piton is an isolated lunar mount that is located in the eastern part of the Mare Imbrium, to the north-northwest of Aristillus crater.
		Due east of Mons Piton is the flooded Cassini crater, and to the west-northwest lies the Piazzi crater.
		There are a pair of satellite craters on the mare to the south that are named for this peak (see below).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mons_Piton (289 words)

	Giuseppe Piazzi: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		He was born in Ponte in Valtellina (Valtellina (additional info and facts about Valtellina)) on July 7, 1746, and died in Naples (A port and tourist center in southwestern Italy; capital of the Campania region) on July 22, 1826.
		On January 1, 1801, Piazzi discovered a stellar object that moved against the background of star ((astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior) s.
		After its orbit was better determined, it was clear that Piazzi's assumption was correct and this object was not a comet but more like a small planet (Any of the celestial bodies (other than comets or satellites) that revolve around the sun in the solar system).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gi/giuseppe_piazzi.htm (619 words)

	1 Ceres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		With a diameter of about 950 km it is by far the largest and most massive asteroid in the asteroid belt: It is over half as massive as the rest of the belt put together.
		By early February Ceres was lost as it receded behind the Sun.
		Ceres is the main body of the Ceres family of asteroids.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ceres_%28asteroid%29 (1573 words)

	B-P's Uncle: Charles Piazzi Smyth
		Piazzi Smyth then returned to the Observatory, preparatory to leaving the Cape for Edinburgh, where he had been appointed successor to Henderson as Astronomer Royal for Scotland and Professor of Practical Astronomy in the University of Edinburgh.
		When Piazzi Smyth commenced a further series of observations with the beautiful transit instrument used by his predecessor, he was at once confronted by a serious difficulty which-had already been recognised by Henderson.
		In 1888 Piazzi Smyth resigned his position as Director of the Observatory and Professor in the University which he had held for forty-three years, and with his wife retired to a country house near Ripon, which was named Clova in remembrance of a place in Aberdeenshire where Mrs.
	www.pinetreeweb.com /bp-piazzi-smyth-obit-ras.htm (3542 words)

	Astrnomy Page from Night Shadow - Asteroid
		Perhaps the heavy cratering took place at the time of the breakup that created the Koronis family rather than the 4 billion years ago as is usually the case for such surfaces.
		The crater is 1200 meters in diameter and 200 meters deep.
		Was it a comet or an asteroid that caused the Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan (and probably caused the extinction of the dinosaurs)?
	www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/Galaxy/3368/13aste.html (3276 words)

	Encyclopedia: Piazzi Smyth (crater) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The little crater to the left of Piton is Piazzi Smyth, a past Astronomer Royal for Scotland.
		The big shadowed crater with a distinct curve of four craters inside (midleft) is Clavius.
		Having completed his observations in 1839, Smyth removed to Stone, Aylesbury, and his observatory was dismantled, the telescope sold to Dr. Lee and re-erected at the Hartwell House in a new observatory designed by Admiral Smyth.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Piazzi_Smyth_%28crater%29 (384 words)

	Encyclopedia topic: Piazzi (crater) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		About three crater diameters to the south is the Inghirami crater (additional info and facts about Inghirami crater).
		Piazzi crater is observed at a low angle from the Earth (The 3rd planet from the sun; the planet on which we live), and it appears oblong due to foreshortening.
		As with Lagrange, this formation has been heavily modified by the ejecta from the formation of the Mare Orientale (additional info and facts about Mare Orientale) impact basin to the northwest.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pi/piazzi_(crater).htm (153 words)

	Encyclopedia: Giuseppe Piazzi
		This article is about impact craters, also known as meteor craters.
		Piazzi was searching for a star listed by as Mayer 87 because it was not in Mayer's zodiacal catalogue in the position given (it eventually transpired that Wollaston had made a mistake —the star was in fact).
		After the discoverer of Ceres, it was nicknamed "Piazzi." In 2004, Ceres was studied with the Keck Telescope.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Giuseppe_Piazzi (1514 words)

	context weblog :: late permian mass extinction
		In 1991, scientists found the Chicxulub crater a 180 km diameter, 20-kilometer-deep structure in northern coast of the Yucatan peninsula at the Gulf of Mexico.
		Now is widely believed that the Chicxulub structure represents a large meteorite impact that was responsible for the mass extinctions of 65 million years ago, the time of the dinosaur extinction.
		Piazzi's discovery confirmed the so-called "Titius-Bode's law", which assumed the existence of a "fifth planet" between the orbit of Mars and Jupiter.
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	The Surface of the Moon
		It was continually being hit by meteors, and the energy (heat) from this period of intense cratering was enough to liquify the Moon's interior.
		For example, if you have two large craters, and the first crater has 10 smaller craters in it, while the second one has only 2 craters in it, we know that the first crater is older since it has been there long enough to have been hit 10 times.
		Crater counting can tell us which features on the Moon are older than other features, but it can not tell us the absolute age of the feature.
	ganymede.nmsu.edu /astro/a110labs/labmanual/node2.html (3613 words)

	Kirch (crater)
		Kirch is a small lunar impact crater in the eastern part of the Mare Imbrium, a large lunar mare in the northwest quadrant of the Moon.
		This is a relatively solitary formation with the nearest comparable crater being Piazzi Smyth crater to the northeast.
		Kirch is circular and bowl-shaped, with a dark interior having the same albedo as the surrounding terrain.
	www.kiwipedia.com /kirch--crater-.html (130 words)

	Ancient Ring System of Mars - Mars-Earth Wars
		From this central location, 93% of the craters of Mars are in that particular Hemisphere, and 7% are in the opposite hemisphere.
		The Barringer Crater, a recent crater in Northern Arizona, is the result of a chunk of debris hitting the Earth.
		Cratered Deimos and poxed Phobos are vestiges of that former ring system as is poxed Gaspra.
	www.creationism.org /patten/PattenMarsEarthWars/PattenMEW06.htm (7161 words)

	Asteroid History Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Since he could not find it listed in star catalogues, he observed it over several nights; Piazzi discovered that the body moved relative to the fixed stars, so it had to be an object that belonged to the solar system.
		Piazzi gave this object the name of Ceres, the patron goddess of Sicily.
		Piazzi was unable, however, to calculate Ceres's orbit from so few observations.
	www.bookrags.com /history/sciencehistory/asteroid-wsd (986 words)

	Introduction to Asteroids
		Careful mathematical analysis later revealed that this faint object orbits the Sun at an average distance of 2.77 Astronomical Units with a period of 4.6 years.
		The cratered surfaces of asteroids clearly demonstrate that collisions have occurred.
		One of the most dramatic pieces of evidence for such collisions exists in the form of a giant impact crater located in the Arizona desert.
	www.mira.org /fts0/planets/098/text/txt001z.htm (1222 words)

	BBC - Astronomy: Stardate
		Giuseppe Piazzi, an Italian astronomer and the director of the Palermo Observatory in Sicily, was taking full advantage of the benign climate enjoyed by what was then Europe’s most southern observatory to produce an accurate catalogue of the fixed stars.
		Piazzi then wrote to Bode and also to Barnaba Oriani (a very close friend and astronomer) hinting that he might have discovered a comet although the lack of a tail or a coma made him think it might be “something better” - and it was!
		Unfortunately the February weather was poor and Piazzi also fell ill and as a result he was unable to continue his observations.
	www.open2.net /astronomy/asteroids/history.html (934 words)

	Ijen Crater (Kawah Ijen) : Grasp the experience and explorer the wonders of nature hidden away at Bali's nearest ...
		Ijen Crater (Kawah Ijen) : Grasp the experience and explorer the wonders of nature hidden away at Bali's nearest volcanic peak.
		Crater of Ijen is filled by a spectacular turquoise blue lake, its surface streaked in wind-blown patterns of yellow sulphur.
		Many other post-caldera cones and craters are located within the caldera or along its rim.
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	Kailyn Derck
		After Ceres and Piazzi’s research, the bodies of Pallas, Vesta, and Juno were discovered (Arnett).
		Piazzi’s asteroid, Ceres, is the largest asteroid known and recorded at this time.
		The crater caused by the asteroid is submerged under water.
	academic.udayton.edu /MichaelSandy/210%20asteroids.htm (985 words)

	Ramsden --> Info and Comparisons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		To the east-southeast is Capuanus crater, and to the north lies Dunthorne crater.
		The rim is somewhat oval and irregular in outline, with depressions at the north and south walls.
		He was the first to carry out in practice a method of reading off angles (first suggested in 1768 by the duke of Chaulnes) by measuring the distance of the index from the nearest division.
	www.crashdatabase.com /computers/129/ramsden.html (965 words)

	Zoom Astronomy Glossary: P
		A patera is shallow crater with a complex, scalloped edge.
		Giuseppe Piazzi (1746-1826) was an Italian astronomer who discovered and named the first (and largest) asteroid, Ceres, on January 1, 1801.
		Asteroids are large, rocky objects that orbit the Sun in a belt between Mars and Jupiter.
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