ASTRONOMERS lost track of a 500-mile-wide lump of rock hurtling through space “rapidly”, it was revealed during a BBC radio broadcast on asteroids.
Monica Grady, Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences at the Open University, revealed how Piazzi made the discovery during BBC Radio 4’s “In Our Time – Asteroids” broadcast.“And he found a spot of light where they shouldn’t have been one.“He thought it was a very, very dim star, but he looked again the next night and he could see it had moved.
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