It isn't. The biggest asteroid wouldn't be categorized as small.
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Giuseppe Piazzi discovered Ceres, the first and largest asteroid.
The largest known asteroid between Mars and Jupiter is Ceres. Ceres is considered a dwarf planet and makes up about one-third of the total mass of the asteroid belt.
Ceres-about 1200 km in diameter
CERES is the first and the biggest asteroids in the solar system
No. The largest object in the asteroid belt is Ceres. Ida is much smaller.
It IS an asteroid. (The biggest.)
Yes. It was the first asteroid to be found and it's the biggest. In fact it's also called a dwarf planet.
No. Ceres, which used to be considered an asteroid, was recategorized as a "dwarf planet" in 2006, about the same time that Pluto was. Ceres is a small rocky body, the biggest in the asteroid belt.
Asteroid - a small, rocky body that orbits the Sun.