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Ceres
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dwarf planet in the Solar System and largest asteroid of the main asteroid belt
Ceres is the largest asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and it's officially classified as a dwarf planet. Scientists study it because understanding its composition and structure helps reveal how the early Solar System formed.
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- Instance of
- planet
- Named after
- Ceres
- Followed by
- 2 Pallas
- Location
- asteroid belt
- Parent body
- Sun
- Minor-planet group
- asteroid belt
- Diameter
- 939.4
- Mass
- 939300000000000000000
- Orbital period
- 1679.910572771899
- Image
- Ceres - RC3 - Haulani Crater (22381131691) (cropped).jpg
- Has use
- colonization of Ceres
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- IPA transcription
- ˈt͡seːʁɛs
- discoverer or inventor
- Giuseppe Piazzi
- Commons category
- Ceres (dwarf planet)
- site of astronomical discovery
- Astronomical observatory of Palermo
- Unicode character
- ⚳
- time of discovery or invention
- 1801-01-01
- topic's main category
- Category:Ceres (dwarf planet)
- Commons gallery
- (1) Ceres
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- provisional designation
- A801 AA
- apparent magnitude
- 6.79
- albedo
- 0.090
- asteroid spectral type
- C-type asteroid
- density
- 2.162
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- rotation period
- 9.07417
- absolute magnitude
- 3.34
- volume as quantity
- 434000000
- angular diameter
- 0.854
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.07957631994408416
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 2.765615651508659
- periapsis
- 2.545538135581839
- apoapsis
- 2.985693167435478
- orbital inclination
- 10.58788658206854
- longitude of ascending node
- 80.24963090816965
- argument of periapsis
- 73.29975464616518
- mean anomaly
- 231.5397330043706
- time of periapsis
- 2461599.9493352976
- epoch
- November 21, 2025
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Astronomy
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Encyclopedic overview
Spectral type C Apparent magnitude 7.6 9.27 (July 2021)
Absolute magnitude (H) 3.35 Angular diameter 0.854″ to 0.339″
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