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Ceres, The Closest Dwarf Planet In Our Solar System To The Sun, May Have Originated Right In The Asteroid Belt
The components of ammonium were likely already in the foundation of Ceres. Gradually, it built up into a thick layer of brine that extended from the dwarf planet's mantle to the crust. Then ...
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Mystery of dwarf planet Ceres' origin may finally be solved, thanks to retired NASA spacecraft
specifically a liquid layer between the mantle and crust, over billions of years. While most of the deposits found in Ceres' ...