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Giuseppe Piazzi, a Catholic priest at the Academy of Palermo, Sicily, discovered Ceres on 1 January 1801 & named the object Ceres Ferdinandea, after the patron goddess of Sicily and King Ferdinand Image: 42 of the largest objects in the asteroid belt by ESO's Very Large Telescope