List of geological features on Ceres

Ceres

Ceres is a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt that lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The IAU has adopted two themes for naming surface features on Ceres: agricultural deities for craters and agricultural festivals for everything else.[1]

As of 2020, the IAU has approved names for 151 geological features on Ceres: craters, montes, catenae, rupēs, plana, tholi, planitiae, fossae and sulci.[2][3] In July 2018, NASA released a comparison of physical features found on Ceres with similar ones present on Earth.[4]

Piazzi, named after Giuseppe Piazzi, the discoverer of Ceres, is a dark region southwest of Dantu crater in ground-based images that was named before Dawn arrived at Ceres.[5]

  1. ^ Brown, Andrew R.; Byrd, Deborah (24 March 2015). "Dwarf planet Ceres gets place names". EarthSky Communications. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  2. ^ Staff (16 September 2016). "Planetary Surface Feature News". IAU. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  3. ^ Staff (16 September 2016). "Names Approved for 14 Features on Ceres". USGS. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  4. ^ Landau, Elizabeth; McCartney, Gretchen (24 July 2018). "What Looks Like Ceres on Earth?". NASA. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  5. ^ "Catalog Page for PIA17831".