Round 6: Tossup 5

In 1801, this body was re-discovered after a 24-year-old Carl Friedrich Gauss created an orbit calculation method. (15[1]-5[1])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. This was the last body whose orbit (15[1])was found using the (*) Titus-Bode Law. Giuseppe Piazzi discovered this only dwarf planet within the orbit of Neptune. (10[1])NASA’s Dawn spacecraft visited both Vesta and this body. (-5[1])For 10 points, identify this largest body in the asteroid belt, named for a goddess of agriculture. ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

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