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Dwarf Planet Ceres; This photo was taken by the Hubble space telescope on January 24, 2004. It show Ceres a Texas-sized asteroid that was discovered in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi. It circles about the sun every 4.6 years and is about 930 kilometers (580 miles) across.
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Ceres Image: Dwarf Planet Ceres ... This photo was taken by the Hubble space telescope on January 24, 2004. It show Ceres a Texas-sized asteroid that was discovered in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi. It circles about the sun every 4.6 years and is about 930 kilometers (580 miles) across. All rights reserved. Privacy Statement...
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Instead, on August 24, 2006, an alternate proposal came into effect labeling Ceres a 'dwarf planet'. It is not yet clear whether dwarf planet status is, like planet status, a sole defining category, or whether dwarf planets also retain their previous minor body classifications such as "asteroid."
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Ceres, also designated 1 Ceres or (1) Ceres, is the smallest dwarf planet in the Solar System and the only one located in the main asteroid belt. With a diameter of about 950 km, Ceres is by far the largest and most massive body in the asteroid belt, and contains approximately a third of the belt's total mass. ... Space & Time...
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It has been theorised for a long time that the dwarf planet Ceres may be harbouring a lot of water. With the promise of water comes the hope that life may be present on this little world orbiting the Sun in the asteroid belt. You may be for...
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/03/05/life-on-ceres-c...
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Ceres (dwarf planet), dwarf planet and largest known asteroid in the asteroid belt and the first asteroid to be discovered. ... For a definition of "Ceres (dwarf planet)", visit Merriam-Webster.
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www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/103501/Ceres
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h2g2 is the unconventional guide to life, the universe and everything, a guide that's written by visitors to the website, creating an organic and evolving encyclopedia of life ... It is expected that the photos and scans from this probe will give us a much better understanding of the Dwarf Planet Ceres and the Asteroid Vesta.
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This web page is a collection of information regarding the Dwarf Planet Ceres. It compiles documents and images from a variety of sources to try and create the most informative website about Ceres on the net. We hope that through this information you will be as informed about Ceres as any professional...
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As with Pluto, Ceres was downgraded to the status of asteroid once scientists realized it was just the first-known of a class of rocky bodies residing mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Last year, the IAU voted to reclassify Ceres as a dwarf planet, elevating it to the same ranks as Pluto and Eris.
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