Ceres was the largest known asteroid located in the Asteroid
Belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter. Discovered in 1801, Ceres
was reclassified into a dwarf planet along with Pluto in 2006 by
the International Astronomical Union or IAU. Ceres is small, about
600 miles across with a relative size of a small BB.
Dwarf planets are considered celestial bodies that;
• orbit the sun,
• and are nearly spherical in shape (because of their own
gravity)
• and are not satellites other planets
• and have Not “cleared the neighborhood” of smaller objects or
created a gravitational dominance of their orbital zone.
The Asteroid Belt contains upwards of a million objects over one
half mile in diameter. It is believed that the belt is remnants of
a failed formation of a planet, disrupted from the gravitational
pull of the nearby giant, Jupiter.
Though this region has the highest concentration of asteroids
and meteoroids, man-made satellites have successfully navigated
through it unscathed and hopefully so will you.
To find Ceres make the following adjustments to Mars’s decimal
minutes.
Subtract .098 from the North
Add .082 to the West
The terrain rating on all caches reflect "walking" from The Sun.
FTF Congrats go to mblatch, ericles, moya
crew and veni_vidi_vici !