Ceres our Closest Dwarf Planet

[Radrook]

Not much is said about an expedition to Ceres even though it is the closest Dwarf Planet to Earth.
Here are a few interesting facts about this dwarf planet.

Ceres diameter is approximately 945 kilometers (587 miles) which is approx. the diameter of Texas.

Its surface area is that of india's.

Ceres follows an orbit between Mars and Jupiter, within the asteroid belt, with a period of 4.6 Earth years.

It was named after the goddess of agriculture from which our word cereal is derived.

It is composed of rock and ice, and has the mass of approximately one third of the entire asteroid belt

It rotates every 9 hours and 4 minutes and has a small axial tilt of 4°

Ceres' surface is relatively warm. The maximum temperature with the Sun overhead was estimated from to be(approximately −38 °C, −36 °F)

Its gravity is less than 3% that of Earth's.
What Would It Be Like to Live On Dwarf Planet Ceres in the Asteroid Belt?

Ceres (bottom left), the Moon and Earth, shown to scale



Below are two asteroids Vesta and Eros as compared to Ceres.

By NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA - http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA19063.jpg, Public Domain, File:PIA19063-Ceres-DwarfPlanet-DawnMission-March2015.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

Here is a close up of the bright spot:

By NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI/LPI - http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA20355.jpg, Public Domain, File:PIA20355-Ceres-DwarfPlanet-OccatorCrater-Center-201602-crop.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

Such bright spots are thought to be ice or salts, reflecting sunlight.

Here is how its internal structure might possibly be:

Below is a closer look at part of its southern polar region:

PIA20188: Dawn's Lowest Orbit: Near South Pole - Image 5/Image e http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA20188

This view of Ceres, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on December 10, 2015 shows an area in southern hemisphere of the dwarf planet. It is located at approximately 85.6 south longitude (latitude?), 176.6 east longitude.

This part of Ceres, near the south pole, has such long shadows because, from the perspective of this location, the sun is near the horizon. At the time this image was taken, the sun was 4 degrees north of the equator. If you were standing this close to Ceres' south pole, the sun would never get high in the sky during the course of a nine-hour Cerean day. The spacecraft took this image in its low-altitude mapping orbit from an approximate distance of 240 miles (385 kilometers) from Ceres.

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Credits:

Dawn's mission is managed by JPL for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Dawn is a project of the directorate's Discovery Program, managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. UCLA is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. Orbital ATK, Inc., in Dulles, Virginia, designed and built the spacecraft. The German Aerospace Center, the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, the Italian Space Agency and the Italian National Astrophysical Institute are international partners on the mission team. For a complete list of acknowledgments, see http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission. For more information about the Dawn mission, visit http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov.…

By NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA - http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA20188.jpg, Public Domain, File:PIA20188-Ceres-DwarfPlanet-Dawn-4thMapOrbit-LAMO-image5-20151210e-color.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

 

[brinny]

Thanks for the info....i've never heard of Ceres.

 

[Radrook]

Thanks for the info....i've never heard of Ceres.

It was considered to be the largest asteroid and then was reclassified to Dwarf planet as was Pluto. One was upgraded and the other downgraded! LOL!

 

[Radrook]

Here is a flyby of Ceres composed of a series of actual photographs with color enhancement.

 

[Radrook]

This dwarf planet has many interesting details.

The weird, isolated mountain on Ceres is a giant ice volcano
Ceres: a world that just keeps getting weirder and weirder.


The weird, isolated mountain on Ceres is a giant ice volcano

Additional Data:

Longest distance from the Sun 447,838,164 km 2.987 AU

Shortest distance from the Sun 381,419,582 km 2.544 AU

How long it takes to complete an orbit 1679.819 days 4.599 years

Average orbital speed 17.882 km/s

BTW an AU or astronomical unit is the average distance from the Earth to our sun which is estimated as approx 93,000,000 or 93 million miles.

So Ceres varies from almost three AU's to slightly over 2 1/2 AUs from our Sun.

 

[Radrook]

Atmosphere

There are indications that Ceres may have a tenuous water vapor atmosphere outgassing from water ice on the surface. Possible mechanisms for the vapor release are sublimation from approximately 0.6 km2 of exposed surface ice, or cryovolcanic eruptions resulting from radiogenic internal heat[108] or from pressurization of a subsurface ocean due to growth of an overlying layer of ice.


Studies using Dawn's gamma ray and neutron detector (GRaND) reveal that Ceres is accelerating electrons from the solar wind regularly; although there are several possibilities as to what is causing this, the most accepted is that these electrons are being accelerated by collisions between the solar wind and a tenuous water vapor exosphere.

Ceres (dwarf planet) - Wikipedia

 

[I'm_Sorry]

What if there is no space, no spinning globe, no heliocentrism and NASA is a big deception.

Seriously asking?

 

[Radrook]

What if there is no space, no spinning globe, no heliocentrism and NASA is a big deception.

Seriously asking?

I have read extensively on that subject and watched many videos. How does the flat Earth hypothesis explain the star constellation difference we see between the southern and the northern polar regions?

 

[I'm_Sorry]

I have read extensively on that subject and watched many videos. How does the flat Earth hypothesis explain the star constellation difference we see between the southern and the northern polar regions?

I'm in the South, Melbourne Australia.

I can help you by taking pictures. Other than that I think there is persuasive arguments to cast serious doubt on the standard heliocentric spinning ball model.

 

[Radrook]

I'm in the South, Melbourne Australia.

I can help you by taking pictures of any questions. Other than that I think there is persuasive arguments to cast serious doubt on the standard heliocentric spinning ball model.

Are you saying the if you move to the Untied States the constellations you see in the sky will be the same as in Australia? Actually, this is one of the arguments I haven't seen flat Earthers attempt to refute up to now. So I was wondering whether you had heard of ay explanation which first in with the FE model.

 

[I'm_Sorry]

Are you saying the if you move to the Untied States the constellations you see in the sky will be the same as in Australia? Actually, this is one of the arguments I haven't seen flat Earthers attempt to refute up to now. So I was wondering whether you had heard of ay explanation which first in with the FE model.

Angles, the heavens are fixed. e.g. you look up like this "/" and I look up like this "\"

SO

/*\ where * is a star we both look at from different angles.

 

[Radrook]

Angles, the heavens are fixed. e.g. you look up like this "/" and I look up like this "\"

SO

/*\ where * is a star we both look at from different angles.

The stars that are visible in our southern hemisphere are visible in our Northern one according to this video?

 

[Freodin]

It was considered to be the largest asteroid and then was reclassified to Dwarf planet as was Pluto. One was upgraded and the other downgraded! LOL!

Interestingly, once Ceres had been identified as the eighth planet of our solar system.
Something that the fanatical Pluto defenders - well, you can't call it "ignore"... they have never ever heard of it.

But then: "keep Pluto as the several-thousandth planet" wouldn't have such a nice ring to it.

 

[I'm_Sorry]

The stars that are visible in our southern hemisphere are visible in our Northern one according to this video?

The thing about this kind of research is that the technicalities still need to be understood as it's a "flat" out conspiracy to the main stream.

Can you see the southern cross up north? The star config is on our flag Australia.

Can you see orion?

I can see both in Melbourne.

 

[Strathos]

I'm in the South, Melbourne Australia.

I can help you by taking pictures. Other than that I think there is persuasive arguments to cast serious doubt on the standard heliocentric spinning ball model.

Careful, or a certain poster here will accuse you of being an atheist out to discredit the Bible...

 

[Armoured]

What if there is no space, no spinning globe, no heliocentrism and NASA is a big deception.

Seriously asking?

Then I guess a lot of very intelligent people have been very, very mistaken.

 

[Armoured]

The thing about this kind of research is that the technicalities still need to be understood as it's a "flat" out conspiracy to the main stream.

Can you see the southern cross up north? The star config is on our flag Australia.

Can you see orion?

I can see both in Melbourne.

Explain rotation about the celestial poles and get back to us.

Feel free to look through a telescope yourself, too. The moons of Jupiter might be a good place to start.

 

[Armoured]

Careful, or a certain poster here will accuse you of being an atheist out to discredit the Bible...

There's a certain poster who believes in leprechauns, flying clams, and teleporting koalas, too.

 

[I'm_Sorry]

Then I guess a lot of very intelligent people have been very, very mistaken.

You know with a false premise you can calculate and simulate something that looks like the real deal.

Look at what fantasies NASA produces with their simulated moon sims and Nvidia with their lighting reconstructions of the lunar footage.

You can even simulate a "big bang" on silicon or now even quantum chips.

Even a world sim if you have enough user data. Guess that's not a big problem ;-)

I played a flight sim with a curve instead of a horizon, looked stupid.

And if you accept evolution you accept "natural selection" there is no room for God if you hold to darwin's evolution. You can debate dawkins on that one.

 

[Armoured]

You know with a false premise you can calculate and simulate something that looks like the real deal.

Look at what fantasies NASA produces with their simulated moon sims and Nvidia with their lighting reconstructions of the lunar footage.

You can even simulate a "big bang" on silicon or now even quantum chips.

Even a world sim if you have enough user data. Guess that's not a big problem ;-)

I played a flight sim with a curve instead of a horizon, looked stupid.

And if you accept evolution you accept "natural selection" there is no room for God if you hold to darwin's evolution. You can debate dawkins on that one.

Uh-huh. I guess all those telescopes I looked throgh were part of the sim, huh?

Fyi, there's room for God and evolution.