Round 6: Tossup 5

In 1801, this body was re-discovered after a 24-year-old Carl Friedrich Gauss created an orbit calculation method. Bright spots called faculae in this body’s occator crater may be caused by magnesium sulfate hexahydrite 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 was found using the (*) Titus-Bode Law. (10[1]-5[1])Giuseppe (10[1])Piazzi (-5[1])discovered this (10[1])only dwarf planet within (10[1])the orbit of Neptune. (10[1])NASA’s Dawn spacecraft visited both Vesta and this body. For 10 points, identify this largest body in the asteroid belt, named for a goddess of agriculture. (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

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