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To: KarlInOhio

“Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and has its own gravity, enabling the Nasa Dawn spacecraft to capture high-resolution images of its surface.”

I don’t know how common it is for a “planet” to have its own gravity or not. But I’m glad it does. Otherwise I guess any pictures taken of it would have just drifted off into space.
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Actually - perhaps the sentence does make sense. If it didn’t have its own gravity none of the bits and pieces would have stayed together to form an object that one could photograph.


23 posted on 08/10/2020 5:13:07 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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To: 21twelve; KarlInOhio
“Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and has its own gravity, enabling the Nasa Dawn spacecraft to capture high-resolution images of its surface.”

I don’t know how common it is for a “planet” to have its own gravity or not. But I’m glad it does. Otherwise I guess any pictures taken of it would have just drifted off into space.
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Actually - perhaps the sentence does make sense. If it didn’t have its own gravity none of the bits and pieces would have stayed together to form an object that one could photograph.


You guys might be focusing on the wrong term. It's 'high-resolution' that the gravity enables. Everything else in the asteroid belt is only available in standard def.
48 posted on 08/10/2020 8:38:57 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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