To help explain, I made this handy (simplified) drawing: Dawn launched from ... This month, Dawn finally caught up with Ceres, which lies in the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars.

By far, Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, which girdles the ... within the plumes of water erupting from Enceladus, drawing some connection between the two bodies.

drawing more material in. As it happened, Ceres was well on its way to becoming a planet before it ran out of material to feed on. Bigger than an asteroid, but smaller than a planet, scientists ...

In short, the largest asteroid in the solar system is Ceres, which at nearly 590 miles ... So how do experts draw the line between an asteroid and a meteoroid? To Marchi, if a rocky object ...

“Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, and a dwarf planet. I think sometimes people think of small, lumpy things as asteroids (and most of them are!), but Ceres really looks more ...

Here’s how it works. Ceres is the closest dwarf planet to Earth and the largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Since its discovery in 1801, Ceres has had multiple ...

FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS McDONALD OBSERVATORY, AS HEARD ON KCBS RADIO WEEKDAYS @ 9:52 A.M., 7:35 P.M. & 2:52 A.M STARDATE 5/1/2014: Ceres is the solar system's largest asteroid — a big ball ...

But first a bit of history: Ceres was the first asteroid to be discovered, by Giuseppe Piazzi on the first night of the 19th century, Jan. 1, 1801. Ironically it was initially classified as a ...

Dwarf planet Ceres is an unusual “inhabitant” of the asteroid belt. With a diameter of around 960 kilometers, it is not only the largest body between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter; unlike its rather ...

Things like asteroids or Ceres, a dwarf planet like Pluto which orbits in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. A new study in Nature Communications says carbon appears to be blown into ...

A crater-rich dwarf planet named Ceres located in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter was long thought to be composed of a materials mixture not dominated by water ice.