Ceres (dwarf planet)
Ceres, also known as 1 Ceres (symbol: ⚳),[12] is the smallest dwarf planet in the Solar System and the only one in the main asteroid belt.
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| File:Ceres - RC3 - Haulani Crater (22381131691).jpg Ceres, photographed by the Dawn mission | |||||||||
| Discovery | |||||||||
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| Discovered by | Giuseppe Piazzi | ||||||||
| Discovery date | January 1, 1801 | ||||||||
| Designations | |||||||||
| MPC designation | 1 Ceres | ||||||||
| A899 OF; 1943 XB | |||||||||
| dwarf planet main belt | |||||||||
| Orbital characteristics | |||||||||
| Epoch November 26, 2005 (JD 2453700.5)[1] | |||||||||
| Aphelion | 447,838,164 km 2.987 AU | ||||||||
| Perihelion | 381,419,582 km 2.544 AU | ||||||||
| 414,703,838 km 2.765 956 424 AU[2] | |||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.07976017[2] | ||||||||
| 1679.819 days 4.599 years | |||||||||
Average orbital speed | 17.882 km/s | ||||||||
| 108.509° | |||||||||
| Inclination | 10.586712°[2] | ||||||||
| 80.40696°[2] | |||||||||
| 73.15073°[2] | |||||||||
| Physical characteristics | |||||||||
Mean radius | 473 km[3] | ||||||||
| Flattening | 0.067 ± 0.005 | ||||||||
| Mass | 9.46 ± 0.04×1020 kg[4][5] | ||||||||
Mean density | 2.08 g/cm3[6] | ||||||||
Equatorial surface gravity | 0.27 m/s² 0.028 g | ||||||||
Equatorial escape velocity | 0.51 km/s | ||||||||
Sidereal rotation period | 0.3781 d 9.074 h[7] | ||||||||
| 0.113 (geometric)[8] | |||||||||
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| G[9] | |||||||||
| 6.7 to 9.32 | |||||||||
| 3.34[8] | |||||||||
| 0.84"[10] to 0.33" | |||||||||
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It was discovered on 1 January 1801, by Giuseppe Piazzi,[13] and is named after the Roman goddess Ceres, as the goddess of growing plants, the harvest, and motherly love. After about 200 years from its discovery, the International Astronomical Union decided to upgrade Ceres from an asteroid (or minor planet) to dwarf planetary status in 2006.
With a diameter of about 950 km, Ceres is by far the largest and most massive object in the asteroid belt, and has about a third of the belt's total mass. It was once thought to be smaller than Vesta, which is brighter. The asteroid is spherical, unlike the irregular shapes of smaller bodies with lower gravity. At its brightest it is still too dim to be seen with the naked eye.[14] Ceres is located at 2.8 AU (257 million miles) from the Sun, which makes it the closest dwarf planet to the Sun. It is also the only dwarf planet in the Solar System that has no moons.
On September 27, 2007, NASA launched the Dawn space probe to explore Ceres and Vesta. In 2015, Dawn became the first spacecraft to visit a dwarf planet, arriving at Ceres a few months before NASA's New Horizons spacecraft visited Pluto, another dwarf planet.
Ceres has an unusual crater, Occator which contains bright salts.
Images
Ceres (dwarf Planet) Media
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Ceres symbol (fixed width)
Permanently shadowed regions capable of accumulating surface ice
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Ceres to scale among the Inner Solar System planetary-mass objects beside the Sun, arranged by the order of their orbits outward from the Sun (from left: Mercury, Venus,*Earth, the Moon, Mars and Ceres)
- PIA20918-Ceres-Dawn-GlobalMap-Annotated-20160926.jpg
Topographic map of Ceres. The lowest crater floors (indigo) and the highest peaks (white) represent a difference of 15 km (10 mi) elevation. "Ysolo Mons" has been renamed "Yamor Mons."
- PIA22660-Ceres-DwarfPlanet-Inside-ArtistConcept-20180814.jpgThree-layer model of Ceres's internal structure:*
- Thick outer crust (ice, salts, hydrated minerals)
- Salt-rich liquid (brine) and rock
- "Mantle" (hydrated rock)
Hydrogen concentration (blue) in the upper metre of the regolith indicating presence of water ice
- Ceres optimized.jpg
An enhanced Hubble image of Ceres, the best acquired by a telescope, taken in 2004
Related pages
References
- ↑ Ted Bowell, Bruce v (January 2, 2003). "Asteroid Observing Services". Lowell Observatory. Retrieved 2007-01-17.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Yeomans, Donald K. (July 5, 2007). "1 Ceres". JPL Small-Body Database Browser. Retrieved 2007-07-05.—The listed values were rounded at the magnitude of uncertainty (1-sigma).
- ↑ "05. Dawn Explores Ceres Results from the Survey Orbit.pptx".
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers at line 630: attempt to index field 'known_free_doi_registrants_t' (a nil value).
- ↑ D. T. Britt | display-authors = etal Asteroid density, porosity, and structure, pp. 488 in Asteroids III, University of Arizona Press (2002).
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers at line 630: attempt to index field 'known_free_doi_registrants_t' (a nil value).
- ↑ Harris, A.W. (2006). Warner, B.D. and Pravec, P. (ed.). "Asteroid Lightcurve Derived Data. EAR-A-5-DDR-DERIVED-LIGHTCURVE-V8.0". NASA Planetary Data System. Retrieved 2007-03-15.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link) - ↑ 8.0 8.1 Tedesco, E.F. (2004). "IRAS Minor Planet Survey. IRAS-A-FPA-3-RDR-IMPS-V6.0". Noah, P.V.; Noah, M.; Price, S.D. Planetary Data System. Retrieved 2007-03-15.
- ↑ Neese, C., ed. (2005). "Asteroid Taxonomy.EAR-A-5-DDR-TAXONOMY-V5.0". NASA Planetary Data System. Retrieved 2007-03-15.
- ↑ Ceres Angular Size @ Feb 2009 Opposition: 974km dia / (1.58319AU * 149 597 870km) * 206265 = 0.84"
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers at line 630: attempt to index field 'known_free_doi_registrants_t' (a nil value).
- ↑ JPL/NASA (2015-04-22). "What is a Dwarf Planet?". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 2022-01-19.
- ↑ Piazzi, Giuseppe (1801). Risultati delle osservazioni della nuova Stella scoperta il dì 1 gennajo all'Osservatorio Reale di Palermo (in Italian). Palermo.
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