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The long, puzzling dwarf planet Ceres, in reality the first named asteroid, has surface features that are much more complex ...

The dwarf planet Ceres, tucked away in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, has long been considered a quiet, frozen remnant of the early solar system. With its airless surface, icy shell, and ...

Dwarf planet Ceres experienced an indirect polar reorientation of approximately 36 degrees, a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Pasquale Tricarico says. Tricarico’s paper “True ...

How would you like to see a dwarf planet? Pluto's the most famous, but it requires a good-sized telescope and a dark sky. There are currently five known dwarf planets. Of them only Ceres, which is ...

Numerous large craters cover the surface of dwarf planet Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt at about 960 kilometers in diameter. Probably the most striking of these craters is Occator ...

Although Ceres is the largest main-belt asteroid and was the first to be discovered (by G. Piazzi in 1801), its physical properties are still not well understood. While it is expected to have retained ...

The once-asteroid-now-dwarf-planet Ceres is on the move across the bottom of the familiar "Teapot" asterism in Sagittarius the Archer. I marked its location in yellow every five nights from July 7 ...

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