You might find (or at least observe) an asteroid on New Year's Day--as
Giuseppe Piazzi did when he discovered the first (and, to this date, still the largest known) asteroid, Ceres, on not just the first day of the year but also the first day of a new century: January 1, 1801, the first year of the 19th century.
1801: The dwarf planet Ceres is discovered by astronomer
Giuseppe Piazzi at Palermo - the first-known and largest body in what would come to be known as the Asteroid Belt.
For years following its discovery by Italian priest and astronomer
Giuseppe Piazzi, Ceres was considered a planet.
Italian astronomer
Giuseppe Piazzi first recorded the Ceres in 1801 after the name of the Roman goddess of agriculture and fertility.
A new catalogue of 7,646 stars from the Palermo Observatory published by
Giuseppe Piazzi, for which he received the prize of the French Academie des Sciences.
Giuseppe Piazzi of Palermo used the latest instrument by Ramsden of London around 1800.
In 1804 the Sicilian astronomer
Giuseppe Piazzi noted that 61 Cygni shows an unusually speedy motion with respect to most stars, whose places appear fixed in relation to one another, and he dubbed it the Flying Star.
The first asteroid ever discovered was Ceres, seen on January 1, 1801 by Italian astronomer
Giuseppe Piazzi.
Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the first asteroid, Ceres, on January 1, 1801.
1, 1801, that
Giuseppe Piazzi pointed his state-of-the-art telescope over those mountains at stars in the constellation Taurus.