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.
In 1801, while making a star map, Italian priest and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi accidentally discovered the first and largest asteroid, Ceres, orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. Although Ceres is classified today as a dwarf planet, it accounts for a quarter of all the mass of all the known asteroids in or near the main asteroid belt.