Editing Asteroid (section)

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[[File:Moon and Asteroids 1 to 10.svg|thumb|left|Sizes of the first ten discovered asteroids, compared to the Moon]]

Three other asteroids ([[2 Pallas]], [[3 Juno]], and [[4 Vesta]]) were discovered by von Zach's group over the next few years, with Vesta found in 1807.<ref name="Hogg1948" /> No new asteroids were discovered until 1845. Amateur astronomer [[Karl Ludwig Hencke]] started his searches of new asteroids in 1830, and fifteen years later, while looking for Vesta, he found the asteroid later named [[5 Astraea]]. It was the first new asteroid discovery in 38 years. [[Carl Friedrich Gauss]] was given the honor of naming the asteroid. After this, other astronomers joined; 15 asteroids were found by the end of 1851. In 1868, when [[James Craig Watson]] discovered the 100th asteroid, the [[French Academy of Sciences]] engraved the faces of [[Karl Theodor Robert Luther]], [[John Russell Hind]], and [[Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt|Hermann Goldschmidt]], the three most successful asteroid-hunters at that time, on a commemorative medallion marking the event.<ref name="dawn-community">{{citation-attribution|1={{cite web |title=Dawn Community |url=http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/DawnCommunity/flashbacks/fb_09.asp |website=jpl.nasa.gov |publisher=JPL NASA |access-date=8 April 2022 |date=21 May 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090521235728/http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/DawnCommunity/flashbacks/fb_09.asp |archive-date=21 May 2009 }} }}</ref>

In 1891, [[Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf|Max Wolf]] pioneered the use of [[astrophotography]] to detect asteroids, which appeared as short streaks on long-exposure photographic plates.<ref name="dawn-community"/> This dramatically increased the rate of detection compared with earlier visual methods: Wolf alone discovered 248&nbsp;asteroids, beginning with [[323 Brucia]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Dawn Classrooms – Biographies |url=http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/DawnClassrooms/1_hist_dawn/bio.asp#wolf |website=dawn.jpl.nasa.gov |publisher=JPL NASA |access-date=8 April 2022 |date=18 June 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618143655/http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/DawnClassrooms/1_hist_dawn/bio.asp#wolf |archive-date=18 June 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> whereas only slightly more than 300 had been discovered up to that point. It was known that there were many more, but most astronomers did not bother with them, some calling them "vermin of the skies",<ref>{{cite web |last=Friedman |first=Lou |title=Vermin of the Sky |website=The Planetary Society |url=http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/lou-friedman/20130219-vermin-of-the-sky.html}}</ref> a phrase variously attributed to [[Eduard Suess]]<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Hale |first=George E. |author-link=George Ellery Hale |series=Address at the semi-centennial of the Dearborn Observatory |title=Some Reflections on the Progress of Astrophysics |magazine=Popular Astronomy |date=1916 |volume=24 |pages=550–558 [555] |bibcode= 1916PA.....24..550H |bibcode-access=free}}</ref> and [[Edmund Weiss]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Seares |first=Frederick H. |title=Address of the Retiring President of the Society in Awarding the Bruce Medal to Professor Max Wolf |journal=Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific |year=1930 |volume=42 |issue=245 | pages=5–22 [10] |bibcode=1930PASP...42....5S |bibcode-access=free |doi=10.1086/123986 |doi-access=free}}</ref> Even a century later, only a few thousand asteroids were identified, numbered and named.