dwarf planet
Ceres
The largest world in the asteroid belt.
Ceres is a differentiated dwarf planet and the only dwarf planet in the inner Solar System.
- Orbit representation
- Representative mean elements
- Surface
- derived map
Reference measurements
The numbers that shape this world
- Mean radius
- 469.7 km
- Semi-major axis
- 2.765 AU
- Orbital period
- 4.599 Earth yearsKeplerian estimate from the catalogued semi-major axis.
- Eccentricity
- 0.079
- Inclination
- 10.587°
- Visual geometry
- sphere
Orbital character
A measured small-body path in the shared reference frame
Ceres follows a catalogued path with a 2.765 AU semi-major axis, eccentricity 0.079, and 10.587° inclination. The resulting two-body period estimate is 4.599 Earth years; the representation notes below state the source epoch and precision boundary used by Explore.
Catalogue context
Ceres among its nearest Helios peers
Ceres is linked with Vesta, Pallas, Hygiea inside the Helios main-belt selection. The grouping keeps adjacent reading coherent; it does not imply that these bodies share the same composition, origin, or present physical state.
Representation notes
What Explore is showing
A published JPL SBDB sample element set is propagated with a two-body solver for visual preview only; use Horizons for accurate ephemerides.
Reviewed official global map prepared as a 1K display texture. Small no-data seams were cleaned without inventing large-scale landmarks; final seam, pole and lighting review remains device-dependent.
Provenance