Well, technically it is dwarf planet Ceres....
And it has been in the news this morning because the NASA Dawn probe has just sent back some of the best photos yet taken of these little known planet.
Although it was first discovered as far back as 1801, it was considered just a very big asteroid until 2006 when the astronomy community chose to create a new classification of "dwarf planet" to cover objects such as Ceres which are smaller than a planet, but too big to be an asteroid. This one obj...
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