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How big was the asteroid Ceres?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

I swear I read in an elementary school science book (back in the mid 1980's" that it was comparable to the size of Texas. It said how big "Pallas" was too but I don't remember how big

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