Talk:Ceres (dwarf planet)

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Three million or three billion?

> Gravitational influence from Jupiter and Saturn over the course of three million

Is this a typo for three billion? If not, a citation seems needed. AgingDisgracefully (talk) 22:53, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

@AgingDisgracefully: The source at the end of the paragraph indeed backs up that it's 3 million. Double sharp (talk) 07:22, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

Sulfur on Ceres

Riddle me this. Two quotes from the article:

and sulfur, despite being suggested by Hubble UV observations, was not detected by Dawn
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

78.22.98.78 (talk) 20:31, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

The first refers to the elemental sulfur and sulfur dioxide. The second to a sulfur salt. Ruslik_Zero 15:11, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

Orientation of the main image of Ceres

I noticed that the main image of Ceres is "North is left" instead of "North is up".

Should we rotate the image? IapetusCallistus (talk) 12:42, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

  • main image
IapetusCallistus (talk) 12:51, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:Featured topics/Dwarf planets

A discussion involving this object is taking place at Wikipedia talk:Featured topics/Dwarf planets#Unhelpful short descriptions. Everybody is welcome to comment there. Renerpho (talk) 17:44, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Too much information!

Sorry, this (wikipedia) is supposed to be for the general public to get a first idea. It is not meant to be a highly specialized catalogue for experts. About 80% of the information here, especially in the top right box could esily be left away in my opinion. ~2025-42129-41 (talk) 09:03, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

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