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Raoul — (archived)

From the discovery of Ceres (and one year later Vesta, Pallas and Juno) till the discovery of Neptune, 45 years had passed during which the 4 small worlds were called planets.
Then Neptune arrived and it was quickly understood those bodies had to be called another way.

Raoul

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