Ceres, catch taken with realist brightness since SpaceEngine. |
Ceres is a Dwarf Planet (Cool Selena), located between Mars and Jupiter, in the main Asteroid Belt, it has a mass of 9.43 x 10^20 Kg and a diameter of 952.4 Km, therefore, its density is 2.07 g/cm³ (Approximately).
Although it is less massive planet, Ceres is the largest and most massive object in the Asteroid Belt (its mass represents a third of the total mass of the Asteroid Belt), this planet in the past was considered a asteroid, but it has a lot of mass to be an asteroid and it has very little mass to be a planet, so since 2006 the International Astronomical Union considers that Ceres is a Dwarf Planet.
Its rotation period is 9.07 hours and its orbital period is 1682 days. This planet doesn't have natural satellites, because it has little gravity (0,28 m/s² or 0,029 g on its surface).
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