What dwarf planet's discovery was Gauss instrumental in?
Ceres
Pluto
Haumea
Eris
Answer
Gauss was instrumental in the discovery of the dwarf planet Ceres. His work on the motion of planetoids disturbed by large planets led to the introduction of the Gaussian gravitational constant and the method of least squares, which is still used in all sciences to minimize measurement error.
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