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Largest Asteroid May Be 'Mini Planet' with Water Ice
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This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope color image of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt.

Astronomers enhanced the sharpness in these Advanced Camera for Surveys images to bring out features on Ceres' surface, including brighter and darker regions that could be asteroid impact features. The observations were made in visible and ultraviolet light between December 2003 and January 2004.

The colors represent the differences between relatively red and blue regions. These differences may simply be due to variation on the surface among different types of material.

Ceres' round shape suggests that its interior is layered like those of terrestrial planets such as Earth. Ceres may have a rocky inner core, an icy mantle, and a thin, dusty outer crust inferred from its density and rotation rate of 9 hours. Ceres is approximately 590 miles (950 kilometers) across and was first discovered in 1801.

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Here is a list of the largest asteroids with their widths:

 Ceres

      975 x 909 km

 Pallas

582 x 500

 Vesta

578 x 458

 Hygiea

530 x 370

 Davida

357 x 231

 Interamnia

350 x 303

 Sylvia

384 x 232

 Europa

360 x 240

 Eunomia

357 x 212

 Juno

320 x 200

 Psyche

240 x 145

Lutetia

132 × 101

 Ida

116 x 46

 Mathilde

57 x 50

 Gaspra

34 x 20

 Eros

35 x 13

 Geographos

5.1 x 1.8

 Toutatis

4 x 2.5

 Castalia

1.8 x 0.75

 Itokawa

0.54 x 0.27

Source: Wikipedia