Dwarf planet · asteroid belt
Ceres
Diameter939.4 km
Orbita = 2.77 AU
Orbital period1,680 days
Day9.07 h
Giuseppe Piazzi spotted Ceres in 1801: the first member of the asteroid belt ever found.
In 2015 NASA's Dawn made it the first dwarf planet visited by a spacecraft.
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