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Mexico, N.Y. – Malaki Sandejas, 8, loves a dwarf planet. Sitting next to his mom on their couch, he rattles off the five in our solar system. “The dwarf planets are Haumea, Makemake, Eris, Ceres and ...
R esearchers looking for objects in the Kuiper Belt – the donut-shaped region beyond the orbit of Neptune containing icy ...
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Was Ceres born in the main asteroid belt, or did it migrate there from the outer solar system? The answer is buried in data ...
Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, has long puzzled scientists about its origins. With ...