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Pluto's Orbit (mander.xyz)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ceres is more than a third of the mass of the asteroid belt. It's at least an order of magnitude bigger than anything else in its orbit. It's hardly a hunk of rock

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

There's also not that much rock, only 73% of the mass. The rest is ice and mud, with half it's volume being water in some form.