In the Solar System · tracked live
Ceres
The largest thing in the asteroid belt and the only dwarf planet inside Neptune's orbit - 940 km across, a quarter of the belt's whole mass, and round enough to be a small world rather than a rock. Dawn orbited it from 2015 and found the bright patches in Occator crater are salt left behind by brine that reached the surface from somewhere below, which makes Ceres one of the places in the Solar System that may still have liquid water in it.
- Radius
- 470 km
- Around the equator
- 2,951 km
- Mass
- 9.38 x 10^20 kg
- Compared with the Earth
- 0 ×
- Turns once in
- 9 h 4 m
- From the Sun
- 398,520,489 km (-113,522 km/d)
- From the Earth
- 367,115,874 km (-2,092,061 km/d)
- A signal takes
- 20 min
Distances and speed are computed from JPL Horizons trajectories and are true of the date below, changing at the rate beside each.
Everything the map shows is worked out in your browser from published orbital data - nothing on it is a stored picture of where things were.