 It was considered as a potential dwarf planet in 2006, but it has since been determined that its shape departs significantly from an ellipsoid, thus disqualifying it.On the night of 5 April 1779, Charles Messier recorded Pallas on a star chart he used to track the path of a comet (now known as C/1779 A1 (Bode)) that he observed in the spring of 1779, but apparently assumed it was nothing more than a star.In 1801, the astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered an object which he initially believed to be a comet.