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Photographer's Note
This day, I went to Yoyogi park.
I encountered in the plaza at the south gate of Meiji Shrine though the festival was held. A illustration of the Nebuta festival was decorated at courtyard of south gate, and the shamisen(literally "Musical instruments with three flavor strings"), and the dance were done in the hypothesis stage. I returned to this place after several hour rest had been taken in Yoyogi park. The people who put on a happi coat gathered this time, and several portable shrines were put on the courtyard. It seems to be a grand festival of autumn of Meiji Jingu that enshrines and celebrates 90 years. After a while, child's portable shrine, a medium portable shrine(for woman), and big portable shrine were shouldered by people who participate in festival and they began to move in the approach to a shrine.
This festival is named "Tennousai", and shakes the epidemic that goes around in summer as well as Gion Matsuri of Kyoto as the purified city type. It dyes to one brave, magnificent festival color in brave portable shrine pretense.
Meiji Shrine:
Meiji Shrine is the Shinto shrine that is dedicated to the deified spirits of Emperor Meiji and his wife, Empress Shōken.
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danyy (0) 2011-07-20 7:54
Bonjour Mikio,
une jolie photo de fête traditionnelle où les sourires ne sont toutefois pas nombreux. Le temps de pose de 1/30e aurait pu être réduit pour une meilleure netteté.
abmdsudi (57606) 2011-07-30 1:24
Hi Mikio
In this picture I am so impressived by the vivid colors of the participants in green. They make such strong color and attracted the eyes and influenced the viewers' mind in looking deeper into this image. Closeness and good shooting angle are also another attractive elements, they fill the frame at right spot in the compo in excellent lighting and exposure. The two floats are nice inclusion and good framing. Well selected dof making them standout so superbly. Great effort and Congrats.
Best regards
ikeharel (78161) 2014-05-17 0:52
Hello Mikio,
Nice festival scenery out in the park.
The faces expression, joyfull and vibrant ambiance well collected.
The two elderly persons in geen are nice bonus to the whole.
Enjoy your weekend,
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Ceres (dwarf planet)
Discovery[1] | |||||||||
Discovered by | Giuseppe Piazzi | ||||||||
Discovery date | 1 January 1801 | ||||||||
Designations | |||||||||
MPC designation | 1 Ceres | ||||||||
Pronunciation | /ˈsɪəriːz/ | ||||||||
Named after
Cerēs | ||||||||
Dwarf planet Asteroid belt |
Adjectives | Cererian /sᵻˈrɪəriən/, rarely Cererean /sɛrᵻˈriːən/[2] |
Orbital characteristics[4] | |||||||||
Epoch 2014-Dec-09 (JD 2,457,000.5) |
Aphelion | AU 2.9773 ( 445,410,000 km) |
Perihelion | 2.5577 AU ( 382,620,000 km) |
2.7675 AU ( 414,010,000 km) |
Eccentricity | 823 0.075 | ||||||||
4.60 yr 1,681.63 d |
466.6 d 1.278 yr |
Average orbital speed
17.905 km/s | ||||||||
95.9891° | |||||||||
Inclination | to 10.593°ecliptic 9.20° to invariable plane[3] |
80.3293° | |||||||||
72.5220° | |||||||||
Satellites | None | ||||||||
Proper orbital elements[5] | |||||||||
Proper semi-major axis
Proper eccentricity
1977 0.116 | ||||||||
Proper inclination
4122° 9.647 | ||||||||
Proper mean motion
78.193318 deg / yr | ||||||||
Proper orbital period
4.60397 yr (1681.601 d) |
Precession of perihelion
272 54.070arcsec / yr | ||||||||
Precession of the ascending node
034 −59.170arcsec / yr | ||||||||
Physical characteristics | |||||||||
Dimensions | ( × 965.2 961.2 × ) ± 2.0 km 891.2[6] |
Mean radius
473 km[6] | ||||||||
2,770,000 km2[7] | |||||||||
Volume | 421,000,000 km3[7] | ||||||||
Mass |
±0.005)×1020 kg (9.393[6] 0.0128 Moons |
Mean density
±0.009 g/cm3 2.161[8] | ||||||||
0.28 m/s2[7] 0.029 g |
0.37[9][b] (estimate) | |||||||||
0.51 km/s[7] | |||||||||
Sidereal rotation period
0.3781 d 170±0.000002 h 9.074[10] |
Equatorial rotation velocity
92.61 m/s[7] | ||||||||
4°[11] | |||||||||
North pole right ascension
294.18°[11] | ||||||||
North pole declination
66.764°[11] | ||||||||
Albedo | ±0.0033 ( 0.090V-band geometric)[12] | ||||||||
Spectral type
6.64[14] to 9.34[15] | |||||||||
±0.02 3.36[12] | |||||||||
0.854″ to 0.339″ | |||||||||
Ceres (/ˈsɪəriːz/;[18] minor-planet designation: 1 Ceres) is the largest object in the asteroid belt that lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Its diameter is approximately 945 kilometers (587 miles),[6] making it the largest of the minor planets within the orbit of Neptune. The 33rd-largest known body in the Solar System, it is the only dwarf planet within the orbit of Neptune.[c][19] Composed of rock and ice, Ceres is estimated to compose approximately one third of the mass of the entire asteroid belt. Ceres is the only object in the asteroid belt known to be rounded by its own gravity (though detailed analysis was required to exclude 4 Vesta). From Earth, the apparent magnitude of Ceres ranges from 6.7 to 9.3, and hence even at its brightest, it is too dim to be seen with the naked eye, except under extremely dark skies.
Ceres was the first asteroid discovered, by Giuseppe Piazzi at Palermo on 1 January 1801. It was originally considered a planet, but was reclassified as an asteroid in the 1850s after many other objects in similar orbits were discovered.
Ceres appears to be differentiated into a rocky core and icy mantle, and may have a remnant internal ocean of liquid water under the layer of ice.[20][21] The surface is probably a mixture of water ice and various hydrated minerals such as carbonates and clay. In January 2014, emissions of water vapor were detected from several regions of Ceres.[22] This was unexpected, because large bodies in the asteroid belt typically do not emit vapor, a hallmark of comets.
The robotic NASA spacecraft Dawn entered orbit around Ceres on 6 March 2015.[23][24][25] Pictures with a resolution previously unattained were taken during imaging sessions starting in January 2015 as Dawn approached Ceres, showing a cratered surface. Two distinct bright spots (or high-albedo features) inside a crater (different from the bright spots observed in earlier Hubble images[26]) were seen in a 19 February 2015 image, leading to speculation about a possible cryovolcanic origin[27][28][29] or outgassing.[30] On 3 March 2015, a NASA spokesperson said the spots are consistent with highly reflective materials containing ice or salts, but that cryovolcanism is unlikely,[31] however on 2 September 2016, published alongside six other studies, NASA scientists released a paper in Science that claims that a massive ice volcano called Ahuna Mons is the strongest evidence yet for the existence of these mysterious ice volcanoes.[32][33] On 11 May 2015, NASA released a higher-resolution image showing that, instead of one or two spots, there are actually several.[34] On 9 December 2015, NASA scientists reported that the bright spots on Ceres may be related to a type of salt, particularly a form of brine containing magnesium sulfate hexahydrite (MgSO4·6H2O); the spots were also found to be associated with ammonia-rich clays.[35] In June 2016, near-infrared spectra of these bright areas were found to be consistent with a large amount of sodium carbonate (Na
3), implying that recent geologic activity was probably involved in the creation of the bright spots.[36][37][38]
In October 2015, NASA released a true color portrait of Ceres made by Dawn.[39] In February 2017, organics were reported to have been detected on Ceres in Ernutet crater. (related image)[40]
Johann Elert Bode, in 1772, first suggested that an undiscovered planet could exist between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.[41] Kepler had already noticed the gap between Mars and Jupiter in 1596.[41] Bode based his idea on the Titius–Bode law—a now-discredited hypothesis Johann Daniel Titius first proposed in 1766—observing that there was a regular pattern in the semi-major axes of the orbits of known planets, marred only by the large gap between Mars and Jupiter.[41][42] The pattern predicted that the missing planet ought to have an orbit with a semi-major axis near 2.8 astronomical units (AU).[42] William Herschel's discovery of Uranus in 1781[41] near the predicted distance for the next body beyond Saturn increased faith in the law of Titius and Bode, and in 1800, a group headed by Franz Xaver von Zach, editor of the Monatliche Correspondenz, sent requests to twenty-four experienced astronomers (whom he dubbed the "celestial police"), asking that they combine their efforts and begin a methodical search for the expected planet.[41][42] Although they did not discover Ceres, they later found several large asteroids.[42]
One of the astronomers selected for the search was Giuseppe Piazzi, a Catholic priest at the Academy of Palermo, Sicily. Before receiving his invitation to join the group, Piazzi discovered Ceres on 1 January 1801.[43][44] He was searching for "the 87th [star] of the Catalogue of the Zodiacal stars of Mr la Caille", but found that "it was preceded by another".[41] Instead of a star, Piazzi had found a moving star-like object, which he first thought was a comet.[45] Piazzi observed Ceres a total of 24 times, the final time on 11 February 1801, when illness interrupted his observations. He announced his discovery on 24 January 1801 in letters to only two fellow astronomers, his compatriot Barnaba Oriani of Milan and Bode of Berlin.[46] He reported it as a comet but "since its movement is so slow and rather uniform, it has occurred to me several times that it might be something better than a comet".[41] In April, Piazzi sent his complete observations to Oriani, Bode, and Jérôme Lalande in Paris. The information was published in the September 1801 issue of the Monatliche Correspondenz.[45]
By this time, the apparent position of Ceres had changed (mostly due to Earth's orbital motion), and was too close to the Sun's glare for other astronomers to confirm Piazzi's observations. Toward the end of the year, Ceres should have been visible again, but after such a long time it was difficult to predict its exact position. To recover Ceres, Carl Friedrich Gauss, then 24 years old, developed an efficient method of orbit determination.[45] In only a few weeks, he predicted the path of Ceres and sent his results to von Zach. On 31 December 1801, von Zach and Heinrich W. M. Olbers found Ceres near the predicted position and thus recovered it.[45]
The early observers were only able to calculate the size of Ceres to within an order of magnitude. Herschel underestimated its diameter as 260 km in 1802, whereas in 1811 Johann Hieronymus Schröter overestimated it as 2,613 km.[47][48]
Piazzi originally suggested the name Cerere Ferdinandea for his discovery, after the goddess Ceres (Roman goddess of agriculture, Cerere in Italian, who was believed to have originated in Sicily and whose oldest temple was there) and King Ferdinand of Sicily.[41][45] "Ferdinandea", however, was not acceptable to other nations and was dropped. Ceres was called Hera for a short time in Germany.[49] In Greece, it is called Demeter (Δήμητρα), after the Greek equivalent of the Roman Cerēs;[d] in English, that name is used for the asteroid 1108 Demeter.
The regular adjectival forms of the name are Cererian and Cererean,[50] derived from the Latin genitive Cereris,[2] but Ceresian is occasionally seen for the goddess (as in the sickle-shaped Ceresian Lake), as is the shorter form Cerean.
The old astronomical symbol of Ceres is a sickle, ⟨⚳⟩ (),[51] similar to Venus' symbol ⟨♀⟩ but with a break in the circle. It has a variant ⟨ ⟩, reversed under the influence of the initial letter 'C' of 'Ceres'. These were later replaced with the generic asteroid symbol of a numbered disk, ⟨①⟩.[45][52]
Cerium, a rare-earth element discovered in 1803, was named after Ceres.[53][e] In the same year another element was also initially named after Ceres, but when cerium was named, its discoverer changed the name to palladium, after the second asteroid, 2 Pallas.[55]
The categorization of Ceres has changed more than once and has been the subject of some disagreement. Johann Elert Bode believed Ceres to be the "missing planet" he had proposed to exist between Mars and Jupiter, at a distance of 419 million km (2.8 AU) from the Sun.[41] Ceres was assigned a planetary symbol, and remained listed as a planet in astronomy books and tables (along with 2 Pallas, 3 Juno, and 4 Vesta) for half a century.[41][45][56]
As other objects were discovered in the neighborhood of Ceres, it was realized that Ceres represented the first of a new class of objects.[41] In 1802, with the discovery of 2 Pallas, William Herschel coined the term asteroid ("star-like") for these bodies,[56] writing that "they resemble small stars so much as hardly to be distinguished from them, even by very good telescopes".[57] As the first such body to be discovered, Ceres was given the designation 1 Ceres under the modern system of minor-planet designations. By the 1860s, the existence of a fundamental difference between asteroids such as Ceres and the major planets was widely accepted, though a precise definition of "planet" was never formulated.[56]
The 2006 debate surrounding Pluto and what constitutes a planet led to Ceres being considered for reclassification as a planet.[58][59] A proposal before the International Astronomical Union for the definition of a planet would have defined a planet as "a celestial body that (a) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid-body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (b) is in orbit around a star, and is neither a star nor a satellite of a planet".[60] Had this resolution been adopted, it would have made Ceres the fifth planet in order from the Sun.[61] This never happened, however, and on 24 August 2006 a modified definition was adopted, carrying the additional requirement that a planet must have "cleared the neighborhood around its orbit". By this definition, Ceres is not a planet because it does not dominate its orbit, sharing it as it does with the thousands of other asteroids in the asteroid belt and constituting only about a third of the mass of the belt. Bodies that met the first proposed definition but not the second, such as Ceres, were instead classified as dwarf planets.
Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt.[13] It is sometimes assumed that Ceres has been reclassified as a dwarf planet, and that it is therefore no longer considered an asteroid. For example, a news update at Space.com spoke of "Pallas, the largest asteroid, and Ceres, the dwarf planet formerly classified as an asteroid",[62] whereas an IAU question-and-answer posting states, "Ceres is (or now we can say it was) the largest asteroid", though it then speaks of "other asteroids" crossing Ceres' path and otherwise implies that Ceres is still considered an asteroid.[63] The Minor Planet Center notes that such bodies may have dual designations.[64] The 2006 IAU decision that classified Ceres as a dwarf planet never addressed whether it is or is not an asteroid. Indeed, the IAU has never defined the word 'asteroid' at all, having preferred the term 'minor planet' until 2006, and preferring the terms 'small Solar System body' and 'dwarf planet' after 2006. Lang (2011) comments "the [IAU has] added a new designation to Ceres, classifying it as a dwarf planet. ... By [its] definition, Eris, Haumea, Makemake and Pluto, as well as the largest asteroid, 1 Ceres, are all dwarf planets", and describes it elsewhere as "the dwarf planet–asteroid 1 Ceres".[65] NASA continues to refer to Ceres as an asteroid,[66] as do various academic textbooks.[67][68]
Element type |
a (in AU) |
e | i | Period (in days) |
Proper[5] | 2.7671 | 0.116198 | 9.647435 | 1,681.60 |
Osculating[4] (Epoch 23 July 2010 ) |
2.7653 | 0.079138 | 10.586821 | 1,679.66 |
Difference | 0.0018 | 0.03706 | 0.939386 | 1.94 |
Ceres follows an orbit between Mars and Jupiter, within the asteroid belt, with a period of 4.6 Earth years.[4] The orbit is moderately inclined (i = 10.6° compared to 7° for Mercury and 17° for Pluto) and moderately eccentric (e = 0.08 compared to 0.09 for Mars).[4]
The diagram illustrates the orbits of Ceres (blue) and several planets (white and gray). The segments of orbits below the ecliptic are plotted in darker colors, and the orange plus sign is the Sun's location. The top left diagram is a polar view that shows the location of Ceres in the gap between Mars and Jupiter. The top right is a close-up demonstrating the locations of the perihelia (q) and aphelia (Q) of Ceres and Mars. In this diagram (but not in general), the perihelion of Mars is on the opposite side of the Sun from those of Ceres and several of the large main-belt asteroids, including 2 Pallas and 10 Hygiea. The bottom diagram is a side view showing the inclination of the orbit of Ceres compared to the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
Ceres was once thought to be a member of an asteroid family.[69] The asteroids of this family share similar proper orbital elements, which may indicate a common origin through an asteroid collision some time in the past. Ceres was later found to have spectral properties different from other members of the family, which is now called the Gefion family after the next-lowest-numbered family member, 1272 Gefion.[69] Ceres appears to be merely an interloper in the Gefion family, coincidentally having similar orbital elements but not a common origin.[70]
Ceres is in a near-1:1 mean-motion orbital resonance with Pallas (their proper orbital periods differ by 0.2%).[71] However, a true resonance between the two would be unlikely; due to their small masses relative to their large separations, such relationships among asteroids are very rare.[72] Nevertheless, Ceres is able to capture other asteroids into temporary 1:1 resonant orbital relationships (making them temporary trojans) for periods up to 2 million years or more; fifty such objects have been identified.[73]
Transits of planets from Ceres[edit]
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars can all appear to cross the Sun, or transit it, from a vantage point on Ceres. The most common transits are those of Mercury, which usually happen every few years, most recently in 2006 and 2010. The most recent transit of Venus was in 1953, and the next will be in 2051; the corresponding dates are 1814 and 2081 for transits of Earth, and 767 and 2684 for transits of Mars.[74]
Rotation and axial tilt[edit]
The rotation period of Ceres (the Cererian day) is 9 hours and 4 minutes.[75] It has an axial tilt of 4°. This is small enough for Ceres's polar regions to contain permanently shadowed craters that are expected to act as cold traps and accumulate water ice over time, similar to the situation on the Moon and Mercury. About 0.14% of water molecules released from the surface are expected to end up in the traps, hopping an average of 3 times before escaping or being trapped.[76]
Ceres has a mass of ×1020 kg as determined from the Dawn spacecraft. 9.39[77] With this mass Ceres composes approximately a third of the estimated total 3.0 ± 0.2×1021 kg mass of the asteroid belt,[78] which is in turn approximately 4% of the mass of the Moon. Ceres is massive enough to give it a nearly spherical, equilibrium shape.[79] Among Solar System bodies, Ceres is intermediate in size between the smaller Vesta and the larger Tethys. Its surface area is approximately the same as the land area of India or Argentina.[80]
The surface composition of Ceres is broadly similar to that of C-type asteroids.[13] Some differences do exist. The ubiquitous features in Ceres' IR spectrum are those of hydrated materials, which indicate the presence of significant amounts of water in its interior. Other possible surface constituents include iron-rich clay minerals (cronstedtite) and carbonate minerals (dolomite and siderite), which are common minerals in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites.[13] The spectral features of carbonates and clay minerals are usually absent in the spectra of other C-type asteroids.[13] Sometimes Ceres is classified as a G-type asteroid.[81]
Ceres' surface is relatively warm. The maximum temperature with the Sun overhead was estimated from measurements to be 235 K (approximately −38 °C, −36 °F) on 5 May 1991.[17] Ice is unstable at this temperature. Material left behind by the sublimation of surface ice could explain the dark surface of Ceres compared to the icy moons of the outer Solar System.
Studies by the Hubble Space Telescope reveal that graphite, sulfur, and sulfur dioxide are present on Ceres's surface. The former is evidently the result of space weathering on Ceres's older surfaces; the latter two are volatile under Cerean conditions and would be expected to either escape quickly or settle in cold traps, and are evidently associated with areas with recent geological activity.[82]
Observations prior to Dawn[edit]
Prior to the Dawn mission, only a few surface features had been unambiguously detected on Ceres. High-resolution ultraviolet Hubble Space Telescope images taken in 1995 showed a dark spot on its surface, which was nicknamed "Piazzi" in honor of the discoverer of Ceres.[81] This was thought to be a crater. 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' rotation.[83][84] Two dark features had circular shapes and were presumed to be craters; one of them was observed to have a bright central region, whereas another was identified as the "Piazzi" feature.[83][84] Visible-light Hubble Space Telescope images of a full rotation taken in 2003 and 2004 showed eleven recognizable surface features, the natures of which were then undetermined.[12][85] One of these features corresponds to the "Piazzi" feature observed earlier.[12]
These last observations indicated that the north pole of Ceres pointed in the direction of right ascension 19 h 24 min (291°), declination +59°, in the constellation Draco, resulting in an axial tilt of approximately 3°.[12][79] Dawn later determined that the north polar axis actually points at right ascension 19 h 25 m 40.3 s (291.418°), declination +66° 45' 50" (about 1.5 degrees from Delta Draconis), which means an axial tilt of 4°.[6]
Observations by Dawn[edit]
Dawn revealed that Ceres has a heavily cratered surface; nevertheless, Ceres does not have as many large craters as expected, likely due to past geological processes.[86][87] An unexpectedly large number of Cererian craters have central pits, perhaps due to cryovolcanic processes, and many have central peaks.[88] Ceres has one prominent mountain, Ahuna Mons; this peak appears to be a cryovolcano and has few craters, suggesting a maximum age of no more than a few hundred million years.[89][90] A later computer simulation has suggested that there were originally other cryovolcanoes on Ceres that are now unrecognisable due to viscous relaxation.[91] Several bright spots have been observed by Dawn, the brightest spot ("Spot 5") located in the middle of an 80-kilometer (50 mi) crater called Occator.[92] From images taken of Ceres on 4 May 2015, the secondary bright spot was revealed to actually be a group of scattered bright areas, possibly as many as ten. These bright features have an albedo of approximately 40%[93] that are caused by a substance on the surface, possibly ice or salts, reflecting sunlight.[94][95] A haze periodically appears above Spot 5, the best known bright spot, supporting the hypothesis that some sort of outgassing or sublimating ice formed the bright spots.[95][96] In March 2016, Dawn found definitive evidence of water molecules on the surface of Ceres at Oxo crater.[97][98] JPL states: "This water could be bound up in minerals or, alternatively, it could take the form of ice."
On 9 December 2015, NASA scientists reported that the bright spots on Ceres may be related to a type of salt, particularly a form of brine containing magnesium sulfate hexahydrite (MgSO4·6H2O); the spots were also found to be associated with ammonia-rich clays.[35] Another team thinks the salts are sodium carbonate.[37][38]
"Spot 1" (top row) ("cooler" than surroundings); "Spot 5" (bottom) ("similar in temperature" as surroundings) (April 2015) |
Internal structure[edit]
Ceres' oblateness is consistent with a differentiated body, a rocky core overlain with an icy mantle.[79] This 100-kilometer-thick mantle (23%–28% of Ceres by mass; 50% by volume)[100] contains up to 200 million cubic kilometers of water, which would be more than the amount of fresh water on Earth.[101] This result is supported by the observations made by the Keck telescope in 2002 and by evolutionary modeling.[20][83] Also, some characteristics of its surface and history (such as its distance from the Sun, which weakened solar radiation enough to allow some fairly low-freezing-point components to be incorporated during its formation), point to the presence of volatile materials in the interior of Ceres.[83] It has been suggested that a remnant layer of liquid water may have survived to the present under a layer of ice.[20][21]
Shape and gravity field measurements by Dawn confirm Ceres is a body in hydrostatic equilibrium with partial differentiation[8][102] and isostatic compensation, with a mean moment of inertia of 0.37 (which is similar to that of Callisto at ~0.36).[9] The densities of the core and outer layer are estimated to be 2.46–2.90 and 1.68–1.95 g/cm3, with the latter being about 70–190 km thick. Only partial dehydration of the core is expected. The high density of the outer layer (relative to water ice) reflects its enrichment in silicates and salts.[9] Ceres is the smallest object confirmed to be in hydrostatic equilibrium, being 600 km smaller and less than half the mass of Saturn's moon Rhea, the next smallest such object.[103] Modeling has suggested Ceres could have a small metallic core from partial differentiation of its rocky fraction.[104]
There are indications that Ceres has a tenuous water vapor atmosphere outgassing from water ice on the surface.[105][106][107]
Surface water ice is unstable at distances less than 5 AU from the Sun,[108] so it is expected to sublime if it is exposed directly to solar radiation. Water ice can migrate from the deep layers of Ceres to the surface, but escapes in a very short time. As a result, it is difficult to detect water vaporization. Water escaping from polar regions of Ceres was possibly observed in the early 1990s but this has not been unambiguously demonstrated. It may be possible to detect escaping water from the surroundings of a fresh impact crater or from cracks in the subsurface layers of Ceres.[83] Ultraviolet observations by the IUE spacecraft detected statistically significant amounts of hydroxide ions near Ceres' north pole, which is a product of water vapor dissociation by ultraviolet solar radiation.[105]
In early 2014, using data from the Herschel Space Observatory, it was discovered that there are several localized (not more than 60 km in diameter) mid-latitude sources of water vapor on Ceres, which each give off approximately molecules (or 3 kg) of water per second. 1026[109][110][f] Two potential source regions, designated Piazzi (123°E, 21°N) and Region A (231°E, 23°N), have been visualized in the near infrared as dark areas (Region A also has a bright center) by the W. M. Keck Observatory. Possible mechanisms for the vapor release are sublimation from approximately 0.6 km2 of exposed surface ice, or cryovolcanic eruptions resulting from radiogenic internal heat[109] or from pressurization of a subsurface ocean due to growth of an overlying layer of ice.[21] Surface sublimation would be expected to be lower when Ceres is farther from the Sun in its orbit, whereas internally powered emissions should not be affected by its orbital position. The limited data available was more consistent with cometary-style sublimation;[109] however, subsequent evidence from Dawn strongly suggests ongoing geologic activity could be at least partially responsible.[113][114]
Studies using Dawn's gamma ray and neutron detector (GRaND) reveal that Ceres is accelerating electrons from the solar wind regularly; although there are several possibilities as to what is causing this, the most accepted is that these electrons are being accelerated by collisions between the solar wind and a tenuous water vapor exosphere.[115]
Origin and evolution[edit]
Ceres is possibly a surviving protoplanet (planetary embryo), which formed 4.57 billion years ago in the asteroid belt.[20] Although the majority of inner Solar System protoplanets (including all lunar- to Mars-sized bodies) either merged with other protoplanets to form terrestrial planets or were ejected from the Solar System by Jupiter,[116] Ceres is thought to have survived relatively intact.[20] An alternative theory proposes that Ceres formed in the Kuiper belt and later migrated to the asteroid belt.[117] The discovery of ammonia salts in Occator crater supports an origin in the outer Solar System.[118] Another possible protoplanet, Vesta, is less than half the size of Ceres; it suffered a major impact after solidifying, losing ~1% of its mass.[119]
The geological evolution of Ceres was dependent on the heat sources available during and after its formation: friction from planetesimal accretion, and decay of various radionuclides (possibly including short-lived isotopes such as the cosmogenic nuclide aluminium-26). These are thought to have been sufficient to allow Ceres to differentiate into a rocky core and icy mantle soon after its formation.[12][20] This process may have caused resurfacing by water volcanism and tectonics, erasing older geological features.[20] Ceres's relatively warm surface temperature implies that any of the resulting ice on its surface would have gradually sublimated, leaving behind various hydrated minerals like clay minerals and carbonates.[13]
Today, Ceres has become considerably less geologically active, with a surface sculpted chiefly by impacts;[12] nevertheless, evidence from Dawn reveals that internal processes have continued to sculpt Ceres's surface to a significant extent, in stark contrast to Vesta[120] and of previous expectations that Ceres would have become geologically dead early in its history due to its small size.[20][121] The presence of significant amounts of water ice in its composition[79] and evidence of recent geological resurfacing, raises the possibility that Ceres has a layer of liquid water in its interior.[20][121] This hypothetical layer is often called an ocean.[13] If such a layer of liquid water exists, it is hypothesized to be located between the rocky core and ice mantle like that of the theorized ocean on Europa.[20] The existence of an ocean is more likely if solutes (i.e. salts), ammonia, sulfuric acid or other antifreeze compounds are dissolved in the water.[20]
Potential habitability[edit]
Although not as actively discussed as a potential home for microbial extraterrestrial life as Mars, Titan, Europa or Enceladus, there is evidence that Ceres' icy mantle was once a watery subterranean ocean, and that has led to speculations that life could have existed there,[122][123][124][125] and that hypothesized ejecta bearing microorganisms could have come from Ceres to Earth.[126][127]
Observation and exploration[edit]
When Ceres has an opposition near the perihelion, it can reach a visual magnitude of +6.7.[14] This is generally regarded as too dim to be seen with the naked eye, but under exceptional viewing conditions a very sharp-sighted person may be able to see it. The only other asteroids that can reach a similarly bright magnitude are 4 Vesta, and, during rare oppositions near perihelion, 2 Pallas and 7 Iris.[129] At a conjunction Ceres has a magnitude of around +9.3, which corresponds to the faintest objects visible with 10×50 binoculars. It can thus be seen with binoculars whenever it is above the horizon of a fully dark sky.
Some notable observations and milestones for Ceres include:
- 1984 November 13: An occultation of a star by Ceres observed in Mexico, Florida and across the Caribbean.[130]
- 1995 June 25: Ultraviolet Hubble Space Telescope images with 50-kilometer resolution.[81][131]
- 2002: Infrared images with 30-km resolution taken with the Keck telescope using adaptive optics.[84]
- 2003 and 2004: Visible light images with 30-km resolution (the best prior to the Dawn mission) taken using Hubble.[12][85]
- 2012 December 22: Ceres occulted the star TYC 1865-00446-1 over parts of Japan, Russia, and China.[132] Ceres' brightness was magnitude 6.9 and the star, 12.2.[132]
- 2014: Ceres was found to have an atmosphere with water vapor, confirmed by the Herschel space telescope.[133]
- 2015: The NASA Dawn spacecraft approached and orbited Ceres, sending detailed images and scientific data back to Earth.
In 1981, a proposal for an asteroid mission was submitted to the European Space Agency (ESA). Named the Asteroidal Gravity Optical and Radar Analysis (AGORA), this spacecraft was to launch some time in 1990–1994 and perform two flybys of large asteroids. The preferred target for this mission was Vesta. AGORA would reach the asteroid belt either by a gravitational slingshot trajectory past Mars or by means of a small ion engine. However, the proposal was refused by ESA. A joint NASA–ESA asteroid mission was then drawn up for a Multiple Asteroid Orbiter with Solar Electric Propulsion (MAOSEP), with one of the mission profiles including an orbit of Vesta. NASA indicated they were not interested in an asteroid mission. Instead, ESA set up a technological study of a spacecraft with an ion drive. Other missions to the asteroid belt were proposed in the 1980s by France, Germany, Italy, and the United States, but none were approved.[134] Exploration of Ceres by fly-by and impacting penetrator was the second main target of the second plan of the multiaimed Soviet Vesta mission, developed in cooperation with European countries for realisation in 1991–1994 but canceled due to the Soviet Union disbanding.
In the early 1990s, NASA initiated the Discovery Program, which was intended to be a series of low-cost scientific missions. In 1996, the program's study team recommended as a high priority a mission to explore the asteroid belt using a spacecraft with an ion engine. Funding for this program remained problematic for several years, but by 2004 the Dawn vehicle had passed its critical design review.[135]
It was launched on 27 September 2007, as the space mission to make the first visits to both Vesta and Ceres. On 3 May 2011, Dawn acquired its first targeting image 1.2 million kilometers from Vesta.[136] After orbiting Vesta for 13 months, Dawn used its ion engine to depart for Ceres, with gravitational capture occurring on 6 March 2015[137] at a separation of 61,000 km,[138] four months prior to the New Horizons flyby of Pluto.
Dawn's mission profile calls for it to study Ceres from a series of circular polar orbits at successively lower altitudes. It entered its first observational orbit ("RC3") around Ceres at an altitude of 13,500 km on 23 April 2015, staying for only approximately one orbit (fifteen days).[25][139] The spacecraft will subsequently reduce its orbital distance to 4,400 km for its second observational orbit ("survey") for three weeks,[140] then down to 1,470 km ("HAMO;" high altitude mapping orbit) for two months[141] and then down to its final orbit at 375 km ("LAMO;" low altitude mapping orbit) for at least three months.[142] The spacecraft instrumentation includes a framing camera, a visual and infrared spectrometer, and a gamma-ray and neutron detector. These instruments will examine Ceres' shape and elemental composition.[143] On 13 January 2015, Dawn took the first images of Ceres at near-Hubble resolution, revealing impact craters and a small high-albedo spot on the surface, near the same location as that observed previously. Additional imaging sessions, at increasingly better resolution took place on 25 January, 4, 12, 19, and 25 February, 1 March, and 10 and 15 April.[144]
Dawn's arrival in a stable orbit around Ceres was delayed after, close to reaching Ceres, it was hit by a cosmic ray, making it take another, longer route around Ceres in back, instead of a direct spiral towards it.[145]
The Chinese Space Agency is designing a sample retrieval mission from Ceres that would take place during the 2020s.[146]
15 km (10 mi) of elevation separate the lowest crater floors (indigo) from the highest peaks (white).[147] |
Map of quadrangles[edit]
The following imagemap of the dwarf planet Ceres is divided into 15 quadrangles. They are named after the first craters whose names the IAU approved in July 2015.[148] The map image(s) were taken by the Dawn space probe.
Orbit phase | No. | Dates[152] | Altitude (km; mi) |
Orbital period | Resolution (km/px) |
Improvement over Hubble |
Notes |
RC3 | 1st | 23 April 2015 – 9 May 2015 | 13,500 km (8,400 mi) | 15 days | 1.3 | 24× | |
Survey | 2nd | 6 June 2015 – 30 June 2015 | 4,400 km (2,700 mi) | 3.1 days | 0.41 | 73× | |
HAMO | 3rd | 17 August 2015 – 23 October 2015 | 1,450 km (900 mi) | 19 hours | 0.14 (140 m) | 217× | |
LAMO/XMO1 | 4th | 16 December 2015 – 2 September 2016 | 375 km (233 mi) | 5.5 hours | 0.035 (35 m) | 850× | |
XMO2 | 5th | 5 October 2016 – 4 November 2016 | 1,480 km (920 mi) | 19 hours | 0.14 (140 m) | 217× | [153][154][155] |
XMO3 | 6th | 5 December 2016 – | 7,520–9,350 km (4,670–5,810 mi) |
≈8 days | 0.9 (est) | 34× (est) | [154] |
17 August 2015: Dawn
3rd Map Orbit - HAMO
1,470 km (910 mi)
(1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9;10;11;12;13;14;15;16;17;18;19;20;21;22;23;24;25;26;27;28;29;30;31;32;33;34;35;36;37;38;39;40;41;42;43;44;45;46;47;48;49;50;51;52;53;54;55;56;57;58;59;60;61;62;63;64;65;66;67;68;69;70;71;72;73;74;75;76;77;78;79;80;81;82;83;84;85;86;87;88;89) -
10 Dec 2015: Dawn
4th Map Orbit - LAMOa
385 km (239 mi)
(a;b;c;d;e;1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9;10;11;12;13;14;15;16;17;18;19;20;21;22;23;24;25;26;27;28;29;30;31;32;33;34;35;36;37;38;39;40;m1;m2;m3;41;42;43;44;45;46;47;48;49;50;51;52;53;54;55;56;57;58;59;60;61;62;63;64;65;66;67;68;69;70;71;72;73;74;75;76;77;78;79;80;81;82;83) -
10 Dec 2015: Dawn
4th Map Orbit - LAMOb
385 km (239 mi)
True-color images[edit]
4 May 2015; Dawn
13,600 km (8,500 mi)
bright spots
See also[edit]
- Ceres (dwarf planet) in fiction
- Mining of Ceres
- Former classification of planets
- List of exceptional asteroids
- List of geological features on Ceres
- List of Solar System objects by size
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ceres (dwarf planet). |
- Destination Ceres:Breakfast at Dawn – NASA
- Dawn mission home page at JPL
- A simulation of the orbit of Ceres
- JPL Ephemeris
- How Gauss determined the orbit of Ceres from keplersdiscovery.com
- Hilton, James L. (1999). "U.S. Naval Observatory Ephemerides of the Largest Asteroids". The Astronomical Journal. 117 (2): 1077–1086. Bibcode:1999AJ....117.1077H. doi:10.1086/300728.
- Animated reprojected colorized map of Ceres (22 February 2015)


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text: Overwatch Is Still Giving Out 'Play of the Game' For Doing NothingNathan Grayson2/15/16 8:15pmFiled to: overwatchblizzardpckotakucore944EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Overwatch is remarkably polished for a game in beta testing, but... it's still a game in beta testing. Advertisement Overwatch's "play of the game" feature is great. It's a nice way to cap off a match, showing a player wrecking shop in the kills or heals department. When you earn it, it feels amazing. When somebody else does, well, you've got something to study and learn from.It is not, however, always spot-on. Case in point: this player, markorply, received the prestigious honor for... hopping.I mean, you know, I bet continuously leaping while holding a bow-and-arrow is kinda hard in real life. So this could conceivably be called an accomplishment... somewhere. Seriously though, this was an issue (albeit a humorous one) in the last beta, prior to a two-month break that centered around tweaks, fixes, and new features. While a lot has changed for the better, it seems like a lot of smaller things still need fixing.On the less janky, more awesome side of things, one Torbjörn player, tichondrius, was awarded "play of the game" for going on a nice killing spree... while dead:There is also an argument to be made that T-beard's turrets are overpowered, making this accomplishment a bit less awesome. The turret's range is pretty ridiculous, and it's tough to bring down. Another thing for the needs-a-fix list, it seems. Advertisement There is, however, sometimes no room for debate. If you manage to do this as Lucio, you deserve a cold, unfeeling high-five from Blizzard's "play of the game" algorithm: To contact the author of this post, write to email@example.com or find him on Twitter @vahn16.Reply94 repliesLeave a reply


text: Better Know An Umpire: Dan IassognaErik Malinowski6/07/12 1:00pmFiled to: Better Know An UmpireDan IassognaUmpiresBaseballMlbNewsAppic5EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkWelcome to Better Know An Umpire, an effort to educate ourselves on the human elements who have ultimate decision-making power over some 2,500 Major League Baseball games a year. (All cumulative statistics are through the 2011 season, unless otherwise stated.)AdvertisementName: Dan IassognaUniform number: 58AdvertisementAge: 43Height/weight: 5-foot-10, 190 poundsFirst year as MLB umpire: 1999SponsoredTotal MLB games worked through 2011: 1,710 (home plate: 420)Previous experience: New York Penn League, South Atlantic League, Carolina League, Texas League, International LeagueAdvertisementCareer ejections: 48No-hitters called: NoneOver/under record (1999-2011): 180-199AdvertisementHated in: Boston, PhiladelphiaNotable alleged blown calls: Red Sox-Indians, April 7, 2011; Braves-Phillies, September 28, 2011; Red Sox-Tigers, April 8, 2012.Scouting report from Major League Umpires' Performance, 2007-2010, by Andy Goldblatt:His plate numbers support the argument that R/9 tends to follow strike zone size. They also support the argument that Iassogna is inconsistent. ... Iassogna's career ejection rate stands at three percent, well above average.Scouting report from an angry message board commenter:AdvertisementAdvertisementThat is a lazy ass umpire who gave up on the curveball, wanted to raise his hand, but figured "nah - too late to call it correctly now. If I call it now, later than I usually call it, it will show everyone that I know I missed that pitch. Anyways, the kid is dealing, he will get this pitch back. It won't matter."A lazy ass fucking umpire who blew the call and cost a remarkable performance because of his own lazy incompetence, giving up on a pitch. Fucking twat. This guy Iassogna has been a bad lazy umpire for as long as I can remember. He holds grudges longer than he holds his strike zone.Fuck him.Average K/9 (2011): 14.4Average BB/9 (2011): 6.1AdvertisementSample PITCHf/x strike zone: April 24, 2012. If Iassogna has historically been inconsistent, then this recent graph from a Johan Santana-Josh Johnson matchup shows that his zone will be quite liberal in 2012.True fact: Has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Connecticut. Plays the Great Highland Bagpipe in his spare time.Strike 3 call:GIF To check out other installments of Better Know An Umpire, click here.Reply5 repliesLeave a reply


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Yorkshire Towers, 305 East 86th Street
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We are in Nashville Tennessee in the Belle Meade section of town .We started as an antique mirror shop . After a few months we quickly decided that mirrors needed chests under them and lamps in front of them to create the home ambiance to assist clients in deciding what look would fit their home . Like a jewel box full of treasures we are packed with fine English chests , French commodes , trumeaux and accessories beyond the normal realm .
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