No. Ceres, which used to be considered an asteroid, was recategorized as a "dwarf planet" in 2006, about the same time that Pluto was. Ceres is a small rocky body, the biggest in the asteroid belt.
Mercury is not a part of the asteroid belt. The asteroid belt is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Mercury is far closer to the sun.
No. An asteroid can be anything from 10 metres to 487km as in the case of Ceres the largest asteroid.
no it was not an asteroid that hit the earth, it was kevins big mouth
1991 BA is the closest and smallest asteroid yet observed outside the Earth's atmosphere. Reference.
It isn't. The biggest asteroid wouldn't be categorized as small.
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Giuseppe Piazzi discovered Ceres, the first and largest asteroid.
The largest known asteroid between Mars and Jupiter is Ceres. Ceres is considered a dwarf planet and makes up about one-third of the total mass of the asteroid belt.
CERES is the first and the biggest asteroids in the solar system
No. The largest object in the asteroid belt is Ceres. Ida is much smaller.
It IS an asteroid. (The biggest.)
Yes. It was the first asteroid to be found and it's the biggest. In fact it's also called a dwarf planet.
The largest asteroid in our solar system is called Ceres, and it is located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Ceres is classified as a dwarf planet due to its size and is about 590 miles (940 kilometers) in diameter.
The average asteroid is approximately 583 miles long in width. The biggest, longest, and first known asteroid was discovered in 1801.