Ceres (minor-planet designation: 1 Ceres) is a dwarf planet in the middle main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It was the first...
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geology of Ceres is the scientific study of the surface, crust, and interior of the dwarf planet Ceres. It seeks to understand and describe Ceres' composition...
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Look up Ceres or ceres in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ceres most commonly refers to: Ceres (dwarf planet), the largest asteroid and first to be discovered...
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adopted in 2006. Dwarf planets are capable of being geologically active, an expectation that was borne out in 2015 by the Dawn mission to Ceres and the New...
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gravitationally controlled dwarf planets. Ceres, which has a significant amount of ice in its composition, is the only accepted dwarf planet in the asteroid belt...
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to the formation of the asteroid belt (including the dwarf planet Ceres). The hypothetical planet was named for Phaethon, the son of the sun god Helios...
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became the fifth planet once again. With the redefinition of the term planet in August 2006, Ceres is now considered a dwarf planet. The disruption theory...
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Ahuna Mons (redirect from Pyramid-shaped mountain of Ceres)
the dwarf planet and asteroid Ceres. It protrudes above the cratered terrain, is not an impact feature, and is the only mountain of its kind on Ceres. Bright...
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Dawn (spacecraft) (category Ceres (dwarf planet))
mission to study a dwarf planet, arriving at Ceres a few months before the arrival of the New Horizons probe at Pluto in July 2015. Ceres comprises a third...
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Giuseppe Piazzi (redirect from Discoverer of 1 Ceres)
Vaiana. He is perhaps most famous for his discovery of the first dwarf planet, Ceres. No documented account of Piazzi's scientific education is available...
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four terrestrial planets and the four giant planets in the planet category; Ceres, Pluto, and Eris are in the category of dwarf planet. Many planetary...
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bright surface features (also known as faculae) were discovered on the dwarf planet Ceres by the Dawn spacecraft in 2015. The brightest cluster of spots ("Spot...
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Eris (minor-planet designation: 136199 Eris) is the most massive and second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System. It is a trans-Neptunian object...
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Asteroids in fiction (redirect from Ceres (dwarf planet) in fiction)
1800s, the first one—Ceres—having been discovered in 1801. They were initially only used infrequently as writers preferred the planets as settings. The once-popular...
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The Expanse (TV series) (category Fiction set on Ceres (dwarf planet))
tensions between the United Nations and Mars from erupting into all-out war. Ceres police investigator Josephus "Joe" Miller is tasked with finding a missing...
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Pluto (redirect from Pluto (dwarf planet))
Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest...
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Cereals Event which takes place in the UK Cerean (disambiguation) Ceres (dwarf planet) Serial (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles...
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The Killing Star (category Novels set on Ceres (dwarf planet))
The two survivors are captured as zoo specimens. Ceres Colonists living within the dwarf planet Ceres escape the initial attack unnoticed. Unfortunately...
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Titius–Bode law (category Ceres (dwarf planet))
−23.69% and +31.04% relative to one another. 2 Ceres and Pluto are dwarf planets rather than major planets. In 1913, M.A. Blagg, an Oxford astronomer, re-visited...
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Planetary mnemonic (redirect from My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets)
pondering" With the IAU's 2006 definition of planet which reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet, along with Ceres and Eris, these mnemonics became obsolete...
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milestones in dwarf planet exploration were reached with the flybys of Pluto and Ceres by the New Horizons and Dawn spacecraft. Exploring dwarf planets demands...
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(July 28, 2022). "Ceres-overview". NASA. Retrieved February 7, 2023. O'Neill, Ian (5 March 2009). "Life on Ceres: Could the Dwarf Planet be the Root of Panspermia"...
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range of uncertainties, it is tied with the dwarf planet Ceres in the asteroid belt as the largest dwarf planet not known to have a moon. Its diameter is...
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List of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System (redirect from Table of planets and dwarf planets in the solar system)
have been five dwarf planets recognized by the IAU, although only Pluto has actually been confirmed to be in hydrostatic equilibrium (Ceres is close to equilibrium...
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classification between planet and rock (or, in the new parlance, small Solar System body), called dwarf planet and placed Pluto in it, along with Ceres and Eris. The...
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unnumbered minor planets, with only five of those officially recognized as a dwarf planet. The first minor planet to be discovered was Ceres in 1801, though...
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ice and rock rather than of rock and metal. These include the dwarf planets, such as Ceres, Pluto and Eris, which are found today only in the regions beyond...
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Solar System (redirect from Inner planet)
consensus among astronomers that the Solar System has at least nine dwarf planets: Ceres, Orcus, Pluto, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, Eris, and Sedna...
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Carl Friedrich Gauss (category Ceres (dwarf planet))
instrumental in the identification of Ceres as a dwarf planet. His work on the motion of planetoids disturbed by large planets led to the introduction of the...
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