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Ceres
Dwarf planet in the Solar System and largest asteroid of the main asteroid belt
Also known as (1) Ceres · 1 Ceres · Ceres (dwarf planet)
- Mass
- 939000Q kg
- Diameter
- 939.4 km
1
- 939.4 km
- Orbital period
- 1,679.91 days
1
- 1,679.91 days
- Semi-major axis
- 2.7656 AU
1
- 2.7656 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.07958
1
- 0.07958
- Discovered by
- Giuseppe Piazzi
2
Sources- 1.Stated in JPL Small-Body Database
- 2.Stated in A Short History of Astronomy
- Giuseppe Piazzi
- Discovered
- January 1, 1801
2
Sources- 1.Stated in A Short History of Astronomy
- 2.Stated in JPL Small-Body Database
- January 1, 1801
- Minor planet group
Overview
All data
97 statements · 39% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Unicode character
- ⚳
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Sources- 1.“The Unicode Standard, Version 6.3: Miscellaneous Symbols”unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2600.pdf
- ⚳
- Provisional designation
- 1899 OF
- 1943 XB
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- A899 OF
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- A801 AA
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- Apparent magnitude
- 6.79 astronomical filter: V band
- Albedo
- 0.09 criterion used: geometric albedo
1
- 0.09 criterion used: geometric albedo
- Asteroid spectral type
- G-type asteroid asteroid taxonomy: Tholen classification
1
- C-type asteroid asteroid taxonomy: SMASS classification
1
- G-type asteroid asteroid taxonomy: Tholen classification
- Density
- 2.1616 g/cm³
- Rotation period
- 9.0742 h
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- 9.0742 h
- Absolute magnitude
- 3.34
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- 3.34
- IPA transcription
- ˈt͡seːʁɛs language: German
- Volume as quantity
- 434M cubic kilometre
- Angular diameter
- 0.854 arcsecond
- Periapsis
- 2.5455 AU epoch: November 21, 2025
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- 2.5455 AU epoch: November 21, 2025
- Apoapsis
- 2.9857 AU epoch: November 21, 2025
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- 2.9857 AU epoch: November 21, 2025
- Inclination
- 10.5879 degree epoch: November 21, 2025
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- 10.5879 degree epoch: November 21, 2025
- Longitude of ascending node
- 80.2496 degree epoch: November 21, 2025
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- 80.2496 degree epoch: November 21, 2025
- Argument of periapsis
- 73.2998 degree epoch: November 21, 2025
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- 73.2998 degree epoch: November 21, 2025
- Mean anomaly
- 231.5397 degree epoch: November 21, 2025
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- 231.5397 degree epoch: November 21, 2025
- Time of periapsis
- 2,461,600 Julian day epoch: November 21, 2025
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- 2,461,600 Julian day epoch: November 21, 2025
On other databases
50 identifiers linking Ceres across the web's reference databases
- AccessScience ID121700
- BabelNet ID00017351n
- BBC Things ID48689d2e-e50a-4197-ab4c-81fe1d5766b2
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID145208424
- Bing entity IDd7f73e12-f5eb-3add-78e1-97b6c25575d0
- BNCF Thesaurus ID75175
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online IDceres-astronomie
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplace/Ceres-dwarf-planet
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)aWql5
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)567618
- Encyclopedia of Science Fiction IDceres
- Fandom article IDspace:Ceres
- FAST ID1710136
- Freebase ID/m/0dv9zp
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID7031542
- GND ID4742216-6
- Golden ID (archived)Ceres_(dwarf_planet)-V45RM4
- Google News topics IDCAAqIggKIhxDQkFTRHdvSkwyMHZNR1IyT1hwd0VnSmxiaWdBUAE
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDceres-3
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0017077
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDCeres_-_astronomi
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)4675897
- Hrvatska enciklopedija ID11275
- Iconclass notation24C11
- Interlingual Index IDi85187
- J9U entity ID987007284961605171
- JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID20000001
- JSTOR topic ID (archived)ceres
- Klexikon article IDCeres
- Larousse IDdivers/Cérès/112382
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh85022130
- Mindat locality ID268895
- Minor Planet Center body ID1
- NAIF ID2000001
- Namuwiki ID세레스(왜행성)
- NicoNicoPedia word article IDケレス
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning843959
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID3884315
- RationalWiki IDCeres
- ScienceDirect topic IDphysics-and-astronomy/ceres-asteroid
- SpaceReference.org celestial object IDasteroid/1-ceres-a801-aa
- Treccani's Dizionario delle Scienze Fisiche IDcerere
- TV Tropes IDUsefulNotes/DwarfPlanets
- Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID219
- VIAF cluster ID315160626
- Vikidia article IDfr:Cérès_(planète_naine)
- WikiKids IDCeres_(dwergplaneet)
- Wolfram Language entity codeEntity["MinorPlanet", "Ceres"]
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID09263315-n
- Yale LUX IDplace/9867ec84-ffb5-4e37-b516-b226addb7974