Ceres
dwarf planet · the largest body in the asteroid belt
2.09 AU from Earth
A round world 940 km across holding a quarter of the asteroid belt's mass. NASA's Dawn found bright patches of salt in Occator crater, left by briny water welling up from below.
- 940 km across · 2.8 AU from the Sun
- one day lasts 9 hours; a year, 4.6 of ours
Numbers that change with time are from 8 November 2026.
open Ceres in the atlas ›- kind
- place in the Solar System · moon or small world
- distance
- 2.64 AU from the Sun
- size
- 939 km across
- orbits
- the Sun