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1 posted on 07/17/2018 2:04:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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“The Sentinel”, Arthur C. Clarke.


2 posted on 07/17/2018 2:07:03 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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“Dwarf Planet Ceres”

I think they prefer to be called “Little Planets” nowadays.


3 posted on 07/17/2018 2:16:38 PM PDT by Boogieman
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Density of Ceres is 2.08 g/cm³; Earth density is 5.51 g/cm³.

So it’s not a thin rocky crust over a gigantic gold nugget.


6 posted on 07/17/2018 2:19:58 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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"Ceres" by L. Neil Smith.

"Pallas" by same author is better, but they aren't visiting that dwarf planet. Too bad.

7 posted on 07/17/2018 2:21:14 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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8 posted on 07/17/2018 2:41:33 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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The asteroid belt is not left over but part of the on going accretion process.

Accretion is the process of gravity in action and is the process of formation all over the known universe


9 posted on 07/17/2018 2:45:44 PM PDT by bert ((K. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... In our cities will be burning))
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Not only is this Ceres, but it Hugh as well.


11 posted on 07/17/2018 3:03:33 PM PDT by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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Is that beyond the infamous Van Allen Belts?


12 posted on 07/17/2018 3:05:46 PM PDT by lee martell
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The asteroids are leftover shards of Tiamat.


13 posted on 07/17/2018 3:47:27 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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