Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and it's the only dwarf planet located in the inner solar system. Ceres was the first asteroid discovered, on 1 January 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi at Palermo Astronomical Observatory in Sicily. Originally considered a planet, it was reclassified as an asteroid in the 1850s after the discovery of dozens of other objects in similar orbits.
In 2006, it was reclassified again as a dwarf planet – the only one always inside Neptune's orbit – because, at 940 km (580 mi) in diameter, it is the only asteroid large enough for its gravity to make it plastic and to maintain it as a spheroid. Even though Ceres comprises 25% of the asteroid belt's total mass, Pluto is still 14 times more massive. And when NASA's Dawn arrived in 2015, Ceres became the first dwarf planet to receive a visit from a spacecraft.Dawn found Ceres's surface to be a mixture of water ice and hydrated minerals such as carbonates and clay. Gravity data suggest Ceres to be partially differentiated into a muddy (ice-rock) mantle/core and a less-dense but stronger crust that is at most 30% ice by volume.
Ceres's small size means that any internal ocean of liquid water it may once have possessed has likely frozen by now. It is not completely frozen, however: brines still flow through the outer mantle and reach the surface, allowing cryovolcanoes such as Ahuna Mons to form at the rate of about one every 50 million years. This makes Ceres the closest known cryovolcanic body to the Sun, and the brines provide a potential habitat for microbial life. In January 2014, emissions of water vapor were detected around Ceres, creating a tenuous, transient atmosphere known as an exosphere. This was unexpected because asteroids typically do not emit vapor, a hallmark of comets.
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Finally my homeboy Ceres gets some love :floppy-parrot:
Ceres- The Planet of Unmeasurable Terror. In space many other dwarf planets and some of the nerdier full grown planets are scared of it.
Back in the good old days we were taught that there were 9 planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
When’s America finally dying, yr all saying “any day now” but I still have to come in to work
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That's the face of someone beguiled by cave lights if I ever saw one!
Amir Locke was killed in Minneapolis in a no-knock raid and the body cam footage was released today and it is horrifying. Please pause or scroll up if you see two gloved hands opening a door and slowed down audio of cops announcing themselves. The no-knock raid like in Breonna Taylor's case was served to the wrong house and they found zero evidence.
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They shoot him at point-blank on his couch as he wakes up from the noise.
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Hospitals aren't required to provide daily updates anymore, but many still do regardless
This article claim that the HHS dataset isn’t the one that we typically see daily counts from. I still assume visibility into deaths is going to gradually erode though.
Can't be accused of manipulating the numbers if there are no numbers to manipulate in the first place:think-about-it:
After Breath of the wild 2 Nintendo needs to make Link a girl or will kill Miyamoto with a bazooka. There is no reason not to and several good reasons to.
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Androgynous anyway
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So much of a player avatar they can only say yes or no and are called Link
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Zelda has a majority female fanbase so number wise it makes more sense for the player avatar to be a woman
4)It would make gamers mad
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this isn't a reason, but don't make it so you can pick your gender either. Women have had to crossplsy as Link forever and dudes have to deal with a female playable character that doesn't need to be female for the plot because only doing that reinforces that male is default
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gamers would literally riot
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I've wanted it ever since Pokemon Crystal let you play as a girl cause it just seems fair. Not like you could reasonal swap Mario
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Space exploration would be so much better if the Soviet Union was still around :sadness:
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A bunch of chuds are angry a teen decided to represent china (the country her mother is from) in the olympics instead of the racist country she was born in
Betrayed by fucking succdems again, the prime minister promised that before the election they would vote on a new gender identity law that would remove having to fucking wait like 2 years into transitioning to apply to a council of cis people to do it, and instead just have it be self-id. But guess what? "Bluuuh pandemic we cant do it we're so busy searching for restrictions to remove and jerking off we just dont have the time or resources.
Bonus points, if you're nonbinary you literally just cant change your gender marker and gendered personal ID number at all, so you can be transfem and at least want to not be misgendered as a man but you have no options to do so, your personal ID that you use for everything is constantly there like a time bomb. If anyone ever tries to tell you about Sweden being progressive and good for Trans people fucking punch them in the face, its nothing but lib fucking "You cant say tr*nny in polite company anymore and if you wait 3 years for our dogshit underfunded system to give you actual transition care, you're able to transition, so transphobia is defeated!".
My girlfriend just started on a job as a substitute teacher. On her first day at the job her colleagues asked if she was a member of the teacher's union. When she told that she wasn't (the teacher's union wouldn't let her join at her former job as it was not a public school) she was told to join the union immediately, which she was happy to do btw. The one chud staff member is being told to shut up whenever she starts just the slightest chuddery.
All workplaces ought to be like that.
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