Dwarf planet Ceres is a long way from home

• Autores: Rebecca Boyle
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3051, 2015, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Shiny spots and minerals on the surface of Ceres suggest that the asteroid belt's largest object may have been born in the outer solar system, far from its current abode. This also hints that our current classification of comets, asteroids and planets is too simplistic. At 950 km across, Ceres is considered a dwarf planet like Pluto, despite orbiting in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. When NASA'S Dawn spacecraft arrived at Ceres in March, it saw that most of the dwarf is as dark as fresh asphalt.