.. to come soon ..

Links

• Messier's Charts of the Coma-Virgo Region, also showing a prediscovery observation of asteroid (2) Pallas

References

• René Bourtembourg, 2012. Messier's Missed Discovery of Pallas in April 1779. Journal for the History of Astronomy, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 209-214 (May 2012) [ADS: 2012JHA....43..209B]
• Charles Messier, 1782. Mémoire contenant les observations de la XVIIe comète. (Memoir containing the observations of the 17th comet). Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, 1779, pp. 318-372 + pl. XVI [Bibcode: 1782MmARS1779..318M]. Here plate XVI.

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