Ceres is fun, because its the Pluto debate, just a few generations earlier. It was the first object found in the asteroi belt, before we knew about the asteroid belt, so it got billing as the 4th planet for a few decades. Then we started finding all it's neighbors, realized nobody wants to memorize +10,000 planets, and reclassified it as an asteroid rather than a planet.
It's now the innermost dwarf planet, and hopefully it'll get a lander mission soon.
Tell me more about Ceres
A little icy dwarf planet in between mars and Jupiter, IIRC. I could be wrong though lol.
Ceres is fun, because its the Pluto debate, just a few generations earlier. It was the first object found in the asteroi belt, before we knew about the asteroid belt, so it got billing as the 4th planet for a few decades. Then we started finding all it's neighbors, realized nobody wants to memorize +10,000 planets, and reclassified it as an asteroid rather than a planet.
It's now the innermost dwarf planet, and hopefully it'll get a lander mission soon.
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