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What was the first and largest asteroid to be identified?.
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What was the first and largest asteroid to be identified?.

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Ceres, dwarf planet, the largest asteroid in the main asteroid belt, and the first asteroid to be discovered. Ceres was found, serendipitously, by the Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi of the Palermo Observatory on January 1, 1801.
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