• psud@aussie.zone
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    22 days ago

    Ceres is more than a third of the mass of the asteroid belt. It’s at least an order of magnitude bigger than anything else in its orbit. It’s hardly a hunk of rock

    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
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      21 days ago

      There’s also not that much rock, only 73% of the mass. The rest is ice and mud, with half it’s volume being water in some form.