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Ceres
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dwarf planet in the Solar System and largest asteroid of the main asteroid belt
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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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Wikidata facts
- Diameter
- 939.4
- Mass
- 939300000000000000000
- Orbital period
- 1679.910572771899
- Image
- Ceres - RC3 - Haulani Crater (22381131691) (cropped).jpg
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- IPA transcription
- ˈt͡seːʁɛs
- Commons category
- Ceres (dwarf planet)
- Unicode character
- ⚳
- time of discovery or invention
- 1801-01-01
- Commons gallery
- (1) Ceres
- provisional designation
- A801 AA
- apparent magnitude
- 6.79
- albedo
- 0.090
- density
- 2.162
- 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
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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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