| 10001 Palermo | Discovered 1969 Oct. 8 by L. I. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. |
| Palermo is the capital of Sicily. It was at the Palermo Observatory, on the evening of 1801 Jan. 1, that Giuseppe Piazzi discovered (1) Ceres. The naming of this minor planet is being made in the first month of the twenty-first century, on the two-hundredth anniversary of that discovery. |
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| Reference: 20010109/MPCPages.arc | Last Updated: 2009-05-11 |
