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Ceres: Keeping Well-Guarded Secrets


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Ceres: Keeping Well-Guarded Secrets for 215 Years

New Year's Day, 1801, the dawn of the 19th century, was a historic moment for astronomy, and for a space mission called Dawn more than 200 years later. That night, Giuseppe Piazzi pointed his telescope at the sky and observed a distant object that we now know as Ceres.

Today, NASA's Dawn mission allows us to see Ceres in exquisite detail. From the images Dawn has taken over the past year, we know Ceres is a heavily cratered body with diverse features on its surface that include a tall, cone-shaped mountain and more than 130 reflective patches of material that is likely salt. But on that fateful evening in 1801, Piazzi wasn't sure what he was seeing when he noticed a small, faint light through his telescope.

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Wow - I wonder what Giuseppe Piazzi would say today after seeing just how far man has come in space exploration - especially concerning the dwarf planet Ceres and what we know about it now.

I'd say he'd be pretty amazed.

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