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OPPOSITIONS OF TWO MINOR PLANETS.—The minor planet Ceres will be in opposition to the sun on the 25th of this month. (For elements and coordinates see pages 2 and 3 of Appendix to Nautical Almanac 1897.) Although Ceres is the largest of the asteroids, it is interesting as having to give precedence to Vesta for brightness; the stellar magnitude at this opposition will be 7˙1. Ceres is now describing a retrograde path on the borders of Auriga and Gemini, near ε Geminorum, and has therefore a considerable altitude.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 57, 159–160 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/057159a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/057159a0