Administration: Individual. The DAB-4 is a revision of one of the most popular individual achievement tests available. Its 8 subtests identify studentsâ strengths and weaknesses across important areas of school achievement. A supplemental manual shows how to probe student responses to obtain information about studentsâ thinking processes and problem-solving strategies.
In 1992, the first evidence of a planetary system other than our own was discovered, orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12. Three years later, 51 Pegasi b, the first extrasolar planet around a Sunlike star, was discovered.
Ceres was the first asteroid discovered, by Giuseppe Piazzi at Palermo on 1 January 1801. It was originally considered a planet, but was reclassified as an asteroid in the 1850s when many other objects in similar orbits were discovered.ts diameter is approximately 945 kilometers (587 miles), making it the largest of the minor planets within the orbit of Neptune. The thirty-third largest known body in the Solar System, it is the only one identified orbiting entirely within the orbit of Neptune that is a dwarf planet.