CERES

Fact

Ceres Dwarf Planet Profile

Diameter: 950 km Mass: 8.96 × 10^20 kg (0.01 Moons) Orbit Distance: 413,700,000 km (2.8 AU) Orbit Period: 1,680 days (4.6 years) Surface Temperature: -105°C Moons: None Discovery Date: 1st January 1801 Discovered By: Giuseppe Piazzi

Ceres may be a dwarf planet,but close up this planet is more than amazing! Despite the fact that people call it all different

things like asteroid,dwarf or small,this planet is extraordinary!

For many years, there has been very little sightings of this planet but that means NOTHING. There are barely any dwarf

planets but this is rare.

With a Surface Temperature up

to a whopping 130-200 degrees

celsius!

Aside from its brightness, researchers didn't have much to go on, so they put the puzzle aside knowing that NASA's Dawn spacecraft would eventually reveal the spot in glorious detail arrived at Ceres last March, and that solitary spot became evident in its on board camera months before that.

In time, as the spacecraft drew nearer, mission scientists realized that Ceres veritably bristled with more than 130 bright spots, most associated with impact craters. But none was as large, as bright, or as distinctive as the Big One, which turned out to lie inside a 90-km-wide crater now named Occator. Close-up views show the spot to be more of a splash, with its bright core corresponding to a pit about 10 km across. ("Bright" is relative: the big spot's core has a reflectivity of 25%, compared to less than 4% for the carbon-infused material covering the rest of Ceres.)

source

http://www.skyandtelesco8p/e.com/astronomy-news/bright-spots-on-ceres-mystery-solved-121020158/