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On this day in 1765 – September 29th – German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding was born in Lauenburg.

He is best remembered for the discovery of the third asteroid - Juno - made on 1 Sep 1804 while working at the private observatory of his countryman and fellow astronomer Johann Hieronymus Schröter.


Mona Evans
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