There are five known dwarf planets in our solar system. One of them is named Ceres, after the Roman goddess of corn, ...

Asteroids, also known as minor planets, differ greatly in shape and size. Those with which we are more familiar are in almost all cases crater-strewn irregularly shaped bodies that can even have tiny ...

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By 1890 more than 300 of these objects had been discovered and it was clear that they were not planets in the traditional sense. When astronomers realized that Ceres had many "relatives" in ...

The solar system contains hundreds of dwarf planets, including Ceres, which can be found in the asteroid belt. Asteroids are made of metals and rocky material. There are many asteroids in our ...