Asteroid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Asteroids , sometimes called minor planets or planetoids , are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are smaller than planets but larger th...
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Images of the Asteroid Ceres As It Rotates One Quarter; NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took these images of the asteroid 1 Ceres over a 2-hour and 20-minute span, the time it takes the Texas-sized object to complete one quarter of a rotation.
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www.solarviews.com/eng/ceres.htm
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Ceres is the largest asteroid in the Solar System, orbiting at an average distance of 413 million km from the Sun. Ceres was discovered on New Years Day in ... Asteroid Ceres Could Have Large Amounts of Water...
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www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/asteroids/asteroid...
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Ceres, the first asteroid to be discovered, is by far the largest and most massive asteroid in the main asteroid belt. In fact, it comprises about a third of the total mass of the entire main belt. Its size and mass are sufficient to give it a spherical shape, like the planets. ... If Ceres has large craters, ... Asteroid Facts...
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The largest asteroid by far is 1 Ceres. It is 974 km in diameter and contains about 25% of the mass of all the asteroids combined. The next largest are 2 Pallas, 4 Vesta and 10 Hygiea which are between 400 and 525 km in diameter.
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nineplanets.org/asteroids.html
nineplanets.org/asteroids.html
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Hubble gets a new look at the largest known asteroid. ... Astronomers took 267 images of asteroid Ceres using the Hubble Space Telescope. From these images and subsequent computer simulations, they suggest Ceres may have a rocky inner core and a thin, dusty outer crust.
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www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050907_ceres_planet.html
www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050907_ceres_planet.html
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The image above is a false color view of the asteroid 951 Gaspra taken by the Galileo spacecraft. Below is a table of information on ... 1 Ceres - The largest and first discovered asteroid, by G. Piazzi on January 1, 1801. Ceres comprises over one-third the 2.3 x 1021 kg estimated total mass of all the asteroids.
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nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/asteroidfact.ht...
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It was in fact the first asteroid ever discovered!ÝÝÝÝ ; It wasn't until much later that the orbit of Ceres around the sun was calculated by a German mathematician called Karl Friedrich Gauss and was calculated to be 1.7 years or a little over 1 year, 52 days. ... The Ceres Asteroid...
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www.edunet.ie/stlaur/ceres.html
www.edunet.ie/stlaur/ceres.html
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Explanation: Is Ceres an asteroid or a planet? Although a trivial designation to some, the recent suggestion by the Planet Definition Committee of the International Astronomical Union would have Ceres reclassified from asteroid to planet.
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