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...

roster of planets. Dwarf planets are capable of being geologically active, an expectation that was borne out in 2015 by the Dawn mission to Ceres and the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Vaiana. He is perhaps most famous for his discovery of the first dwarf planet, Ceres. No documented account of Piazzi's scientific education exists in...

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...

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...

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...

the fifth planet once again. Following the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) redefinition of the term planet in August 2006, Ceres is now considered...

The two survivors are captured as zoo specimens. Ceres Colonists living within the dwarf planet Ceres escape the initial attack unnoticed. Unfortunately...

the dwarf planet asteroid 1 Ceres. From the perspective of Ceres, its orbit traces an analemma. "(76146) = 2000 EU16 = 2002 TO288". Minor Planet Center...

(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"...

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...

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...

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...

Mercury and Venus, while the superior planets are Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Dwarf planets like Ceres or Pluto and most asteroids are 'superior'...

−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,...

consensus among astronomers that the Solar System has at least nine dwarf planets: Ceres, Orcus, Pluto, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, Eris, and Sedna...

Cereals Event which takes place in the UK Cerean (disambiguation) Ceres (dwarf planet) Serial (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles...

the second-largest asteroid, both by mass and by volume, after the dwarf planet Ceres. Measurements give it a nominal volume only slightly larger than that...

Greek barýs 'heavy' Greek lanthánein 'to lie hidden' Ceres (dwarf planet), then considered a planet Greek prásios dídymos 'green twin' Greek néos dídymos...

had hitherto been considered a planet) is classified as a dwarf planet. According to the IAU, "planets and dwarf planets are two distinct classes of objects"...

four years to reach Ceres, assuming a launch by a Soyuz rocket. Pullen, Lee (16 April 2009). "New Lander Could Probe Dwarf Planet Ceres For Life". Space...

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...

which became the planets, whereas others were ejected by the planets or destroyed in collisions with each other. Pallas, Vesta and Ceres appear to be the...

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...

These characteristics make Hygiea very similar to the main-belt dwarf planet Ceres, which suggests the two objects have similar origins and evolutionary...

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...