Packet 6: Tossup 5

In 1801, this body was re-discovered after a 24-year-old Carl Friedrich Gauss (-5[1])created (15[1])an orbit calculation method. (15[1]-5[1])Bright spots called faculae in this body’s (15[1])occator crater may (15[1])be caused by magnesium sulfate hexahydrite (-5[1])brine. Rising mud may explain a positive mass anomaly near this body’s bright streaked Ahuna Mons cryovolcano. (-5[1])This was (-5[1])the last body whose orbit (15[1])was found using the (*) Titus-Bode Law. (10[1]-5[4])Giuseppe (10[2]-5[1])Piazzi (-5[2])discovered (-5[1])this (10[1])only dwarf planet within (10[1]-5[1])the orbit (10[4]-5[2])of (10[3]-5[1])Neptune. (10[3]-5[1])NASA’s Dawn spacecraft (10[1])visited both Vesta and (10[1])this body. (10[2]-5[1])For 10 points, identify this largest body in the asteroid (10[1])belt, (0[1])named (0[1])for a goddess (10[1])of agriculture. (10[3])■END■ (10[11]0[2])

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