Objects in Our Universe

Asteroid Belt                   In 1596, Johannes Kepler analysing data of Tycho Brahe’s, Kepler thought that there was too large gap between the orbits of planet Mars and Jupiter . According to Titius-Bode Law an apparent pattern in the layout of the planets, one planet is missing between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. In 1781, the William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus . The planet’s orbit matched the Titius-Bode Law almost perfectly. In January 1, 1801, Chair of astronomy at the University of Palermo, found a tiny moving object in an orbit which is exactly predicted by the pattern. This object is the Ceres. The Ceres is the biggest asteroid in the main asteroid belt which was categorized as “Dwarf Planet”. The Heinrich Olbers found a second in the same region where the Ceres was found, Pallas. After the further investigation, the astronomer discovered two new objects in the same region named as Juno and Vesta. These four asteroids Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta are half the