Here's an interesting history of the first asteroids: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/hilton/AsteroidHistory/minorplanets.html
For roughly 50 years until the 1850's, Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta were all considered planets. Ron Baalke ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
