Ceres: The Closest And Smallest Dwarf Planet

From is status in the solar system, to some of the unique things about it, and more! Join me as I show you Ceres facts and history: The mysterious dwarf planet!

10 What Is Ceres?
Dwarf planet Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and the only dwarf planet located in the inner solar system. It was the first member of the asteroid belt to be discovered when Giuseppe Piazzi spotted it in 1801. And when Dawn arrived in 2015, it became the first dwarf planet to receive a visit from a spacecraft.

9. The History And Discovery Of Ceres
The finding of Ceres is a bit more in depth than we teased in the last entry, so here's a bit of a deeper look at its finding.

8. Classification Issues
Something you must remember is that when it came to early astronomy is that the universe as a whole was still unknown in the grand scale and various notions about were changing and evolving with each century and new discovery.

7. Structure and Surface
Ceres is more similar to the terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) than its asteroid neighbors, but it is much less dense.

6. Orbits, Rotations, and Seasons
Ceres takes 1,682 Earth days, or 4.6 Earth years, to make one trip around the sun. As Ceres orbits the sun, it completes one rotation every 9 hours, making its day length one of the shortest in the solar system

5. Pop Culture
The largest body in the asteroid belt, Ceres has amassed a number of references in science fiction stories of the 20th and 21st centuries. In the TV series The Expanse, Ceres is inhabited by humans, and in the PC Game Descent, one of the secret levels takes place on Ceres.

4. Formation
Ceres formed along with the rest of the solar system about 4.5 billion years ago when gravity pulled swirling gas and dust in to become a small dwarf planet.

3. Exploration
Despite us knowing a lot about Ceres, the fact of the matter is that pretty much everything we've found out about the dwarf planet has been made at ground level. Not for lack of trying to get there with something else, mind you.

2. Potential For Life?
Ceres is one of the few places in our solar system where scientists would like to search for possible signs of life. It has something a lot of other planets don't: water.

1. Living On Ceres?
As you all know, or at least hopefully know, our goal for this current decade is to go and reach Mars. Then, we will start to build a colony there and potentially start expanding across the solar system.
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DISCUSSIONS & SOCIAL MEDIA

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00:00 Intro
00:20 10 What Is Ceres?
01:10 9. The History And Discovery Of Ceres
03:00 8. Classification Issues
05:20 7.Structure and Surface
07:02 6. Orbits, Rotations, and Seasons
07:56 5. Pop Culture
08:45 4. Formation
09:40 3. Exploration
10:50 2. Potential For Life?
12:10 1. Living On Ceres?
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[jba]

I had no idea ceres had ice. Sounds like a good place for a base or port for future exploration.

[L-STizZL]

The space craft in 2015 was called “DAWN”, not Darwin. And it is a little known but absolutely fascinating nasa medium budget mission. Also I believe the first space craft to utilize ion thrusters

[juslewissr]

If we were to mine the asteroid belt, Ceres would make an excellent outpost as well.

[L-STizZL]

Honestly I don’t know how this channel still gets the views it does and the subs. Every single video I watch is absolutely littered with inaccurate and blatantly false information, some people say it’s AI generated scripts? But how so? AI has the entire internet at its disposal and would know the facts…. I don’t understand what’s going on here tbh. Maybe someone can explain?

[barrywhite]

It's an idea that makes sense before we even think about moving out of the solar system to places like Alpha Centauri we need to build up the infrastructure of the solar system wether it be mining of the asteroid, Kuiper belt and the Oout Cloud strategically placed space stations around the system, connecting points for the moving of resources mined from the asteroid and kuiper belt along with the Oout Cloud from the outer system in towards processing stations and Earth so that for one we would have the ability to exit the system at any point and not have to wait for the planets to be in the right positions, and two you really wouldn't want to launch any really important mission from Earth, it would make more sense to have a shipyard in orbit of Jupiter or Saturn, which reinforces the need to build up the infrastructure of the solar system.

[DarthDragonTheGuardian]

Wow, this is interesting, I didn't even know that Ceres was in Destiny. That is awesome ❤

[model]

Dawn spacecraft orbited Ceres in 2015. Do your research!

[delevbraefletcher]

I wasn't expecting a destiny reference but im Pleasantly surprise

[BiserAngelov]

I got a feeling, that Ceres will be the first place we will find life outside of earth.

[greenehouse]

What a fantastic opportunity to find life and compare it to life here. Whatever the results, we will be a step closer to learning the cause of the Cambrian explosion we all know about.

[HoppiHopp]

Was this done by AI? The stock footage is so ridiculous and the bullet points are just unnecessary.

[R_SENAL]

On paper/on screen I Never would have pronounced Ceres as "Series." I was sure it was "Ser-es." 🤯

[rambultruesdell]

If Ceres is of the Sun's protoplanetary disc, spherical in shape, then count it in.

[angusmackaskill]

the hottest mars gets on the equator in the dog days of summer is a spring day in iceland. ceres is way colder

[concious]

So no mention of the octagon shaped crater and other anomalies on Ceres like the lighted surface, ok!

[Tommykey]

We must conquer Ceres as soon as possible! 😂

[menatueje]

What is the use to JWST if not to take a detailed look in this Ceres.

[lvelez]

Just like I will always be a human on this earth, even though I'm small/short, Pluto will always be a planet no matter how small and weird the orbit

[christopherwebb]

Every time you show a picture of Mars, it's actually the Hubble telescope image of Pluto.