Did you Know The Largest Asteroid Is About 965 Km Wide
Ceres, the dwarf planet, was the first and biggest object ever to be deemed an asteroid. It was discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi, an Italian astronomer, in 1801. Located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, Ceres accounts for a whopping 33% of the entire belt’s mass!
The Sun’s Surface Area Is 11,990 Times the Earth’s Size
It will take more than a million Earth-sized planets to fill up the Sun! Not just that, but the Sun is considered approximately 3, 00,000 times larger than the Earth, and is 14.9 billion km away. And, did you know it has been forecasted that there will come a day when the Earth will be consumed by the Sun?
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