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the dwarf planet that got demoted twice and still shows up.
means ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, a dwarf planet made mostly of rock and ice with possible subsurface water.
from discovered in 1801 by giuseppe piazzi, named after the roman goddess of agriculture and harvest; briefly hailed as a full planet before astronomers realized it had company in the belt and downgraded it, decades before pluto suffered the same fate.
sizeabout 940 km wide, roughly texas-sized
mass shareholds a third of the asteroid belt's total mass
bright spotsoccator crater hides salty mineral deposits, not aliens
visited bynasa's dawn probe orbited it starting 2015