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Dwarf Planet Ceres: Biggest in the Asteroid Belt (Infographic)

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Facts about protoplanet Ceres.
The Dawn space probe is getting humanity's best view yet of the tiny survivor from the solar system's earliest days. (Image credit: By Karl Tate, Infographics Artist)

The dwarf planet Ceres is 590 miles (950 kilometers) in diameter, or about the size of the state of Texas. Ceres is thought to be a surviving protoplanet, or planetary embryo, formed 4.57 billion years ago in the earliest days of our solar system. 

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