It paled against spectacular Pluto: its tiny sister world, planetoid (1) Ceres, the dwarf planet closest to Earth that is observed by a space probe since 2015. Though it is a surprising object, too, with a mountain like there is no other in the solar system, with brightly shining salt pans - and with a camouflaging hood. For Ceres does not belong where it is now, between Mars and Jupiter, it only pretends that it did. Where did it come from? The winter 2016/17 provided astonishing clues to Ceres' strange history which are presented in this book. 'Join a fascinating trip to Ceres in this book and marvel at its impressive images: to a body that has not fully managed to become a true planet and was caught in the protoplanetary stage.'Dr Rainer Riemann, astrophysicist
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