See also: Pallas

Pallas is the larger third Astéroïde of principal belt (524 kilometers average diameter) after 1 Cérès and 4 Vesta. It is the second who was discovered.

It was discovered the March 28th 1802 by Heinrich Olbers while it tried to find 1 Cérès using the orbital predictions of Carl Friedrich Gauss. Olbers discovered also 4 Vesta. Pallas was named in the honor of the Greek goddess of wisdom, science and arts.

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The chemical element Palladium (atomic number 46) was discovered in 1803 and took its name of the asteroid.

Be-X-old: Палада (астэроід) Simple: 2 Pallas