Piazzi needed to track its motion across the sky and then calculate its orbit around the Sun.
Piazzi 需要跟踪它在天空中的运动,然后计算它绕太阳的轨道。
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Today, we can do something that Piazzi could only dream of: send spacecraft to study asteroids up close.
今天, 我们可以做一件皮亚齐梦寐以求的事情:派航天器近距离研究小行星。
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Charles Piazzi Smyth, a 19th-century Scottish astronomer, wrote a three-book opus on how measuring the Great Pyramid of Giza using a " royal cubit" could divine the future.
Giuseppe Piazzi (16 July 1746 – 22 July 1826) was an Italian Catholic priest of the Theatine order, mathematician, and astronomer. He was born in Ponte in Valtellina, and died in Naples. He established an observatory at Palermo, now the Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo – Giuseppe S. Vaiana. Perhaps his most famous discovery was the first dwarf planet, Ceres.