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Ceres is saturated with impact craters.Many have a central pit or bright spot. In the first batch of 17 names approved by the IAU, craters north of 20° north latitude had names beginning with A–G (with Asari being the furthest north), those between 20° north and south latitude beginning with H–R, and those further south beginning with S–Z (with Zadeni being the furthest south).
Dawn revealed that Ceres has a heavily cratered surface, though with fewer large craters than expected. [76] Models based on the formation of the current asteroid belt had predicted Ceres should have ten to fifteen craters larger than 400 km (250 mi) in diameter. [76]
Later near-infrared images with a higher resolution taken over a whole rotation with the Keck telescope using adaptive optics showed several bright and dark features moving with Ceres's rotation. Two dark features had circular shapes and are presumably craters; one of them was observed to have a bright central region, whereas another was ...
They left miles-long craters in the Mid-Atlantic Chesapeake Bay and Siberia: the fourth- and fifth-largest asteroid craters on Earth. But what happened after they hit is puzzling to scientists.
The Kaali impacts (c. 1500 BC) during the Nordic Bronze Age may have influenced Estonian and Finnish mythology, [5] the Campo del Cielo (c. 2500 BC) could be in the legends of some Native Argentine tribes, [6] [7] while Henbury (c. 2700 BC) has figured in Australian Aboriginal oral traditions. [8] Macha crater field map One of the Kaali craters
Ceres (bottom left), the Moon and Earth, shown to scale Relative mean diameters of the four largest minor planets in the asteroid belt ( dwarf planet Ceres at left) Ceres' mean density of 2,162 kg/m 3 is midway between rock (~3,000 kg/m 3 ) and ice (~1,000 kg/m 3 ).
Scientists have detected ice on the planet's surface, which could mean Ceres is hiding an ocean below its frozen crust. Dwarf planet Ceres may have a huge ocean that could support life Skip to ...
Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is an "ocean world" with a big reservoir of salty water under its frigid surface, scientists said in findings that raise ...