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Angular diameter. 0.84" [10] to 0.33". Ceres, also known as 1 Ceres (symbol: ), [12] is the smallest dwarf planet in the Solar System and the only one in the main asteroid belt . It was discovered on 1 January 1801, by Giuseppe Piazzi, [13] and is named after the Roman goddess Ceres, as the goddess of growing plants, the harvest, and motherly ...
Belt armor is a layer of heavy metal armor plated onto or within the outer hulls of warships, typically on battleships, battlecruisers and cruisers, and aircraft carriers . The belt armor is designed to prevent projectiles from penetrating to the heart of a warship. When struck by an artillery shell or underwater torpedo, the belt armor either ...
The asteroid belt is the region to the Solar System located roughly atween the orbits o the planets Maurs an Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularl\]= shaped bodies cried asteroids or minor planets. The asteroid belt is an aa termed the main asteroid belt or main belt tae distinguish its members frae ither asteroids in the Solar Seestem ...
Asteroids, including those in the asteroid belt, have been suggested as possible sites of space colonization. [1] Motives include the survival of humanity, and the specific economic opportunity for asteroid mining. Obstacles include transportation distance, temperature, radiation, lack of gravity, and psychological issues.
Al-ʻIjliyyah bint al-ʻIjliyy (Arabic: العجلية بنت العجلي) was a 10th-century maker of astrolabes active in Aleppo, in what is now northern Syria.. She is sometimes known in modern popular literature as Mariam al-Asṭurlābiyya (Arabic: مريم الأسطرلابية) but her supposed first name 'Mariam' is not mentioned in the only known source about her life.
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0.854″ to 0.339″. Ceres ( minor-planet designation: 1 Ceres) is a dwarf planet in the middle main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It was the first known asteroid, discovered on 1 January 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi at Palermo Astronomical Observatory in Sicily, and announced as a new planet.
