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to be inclined over 10A to the ecliptic, and
its diameter was only 161 miles.
On March 28th, 1802, Olbers discov-
ered a new seventh magnitude star, which
turned out to be a planet resembling Ceres.
It was called Pallas. Gauss found its orbit
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to be inclined 35A to the ecliptic, and to
cut the orbit of Ceres; whence Olbers con-
sidered that these might be fragments of a
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