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Bookmark or Share- Ceres - NASA ScienceDwarf planet Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and it's the only dwarf planet located in the inner solar system. It was the first member of the asteroid belt to be discovered when Giuseppe Piazzi spotted it in 1801.
- Asteroid belt - WikipediaBy far the largest object within the belt is the dwarf planet Ceres. The total mass of the asteroid belt is significantly less than Pluto's, and roughly twice that of Pluto's moon Charon. The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar System, centered on the Sun and roughly spanning the space between the orbits of the planets Jupiter ...
- Ceres (dwarf planet) - WikipediaCeres (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 known asteroid, discovered on 1 January 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi at Palermo Astronomical Observatory in Sicily, and announced as a new planet.
- Ceres Facts | Orbit, Composition, Size, Gravity & DefinitionCeres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, but was reclassified a dwarf planet in 2006 – even though it’s 14 times smaller than Pluto.
- Ceres: The closest dwarf planet to Earth | SpaceCeres is the closest dwarf planet to Earth and the largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Since its discovery in 1801, Ceres has had multiple identities. First, it was...
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