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Ceres is the largest so-called asteroid within the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. First discovered in 1801, this England-sized dwarf planet may be small, but it has been labelled by scientists as a "chemical factory"; and a 2017 discovery found that the planet does indeed have several key ingredients for carbon-based primitive life as we know it. With upwards of 200M KM of water, and a vapour-rich atmosphere, Ceres may well be home to, or have been home to, very primitive species of life. So, what are we waiting for? Let's get straight to it, as we explore this wonderful little planet! SUBSCRIBE and become a member of the SeaTards! Subscriptions aren't expected but are hugely appreciated! 🙂 Join the NEW SeaSquad 100K Discord Server, too! https://discord.gg/CjeuAzv Music, as always, provided by the amazing CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA FOOTAGE: - 8-minute Space Journey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un5SEJ8MyPc&t - Solar System Stock Footage: https://www.youtube.com/user/footageisland Images provided by Ceres' Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet) FINAL NOTE FOR THE YEAR: My last video of 2018 for sure, and it seemed fitting to go out with an OOTW episode- a series that has brought me so much success and rapid growth within 8 months of production. This series has been great, and I've learned so much about the universe while making these 12 episodes, and I've also learned incredible amounts about what it takes to be a good YouTuber with such high returns on episodes like the Bootes Void and the CMB Cold Spot. Space is now a key part of my channel, and will be for the foreseeable future- potentially forever. I can't wait to see what 2019 holds for the channel- and I'm willing to bet space and space videos, especially OOTW, will be an absolutely essential component in achieving whatever goals may come in the year ahead. Until then, happy new year, and thank you for watching and enjoying this series that is such a pleasure for me to produce. - Sam

Our planet shares a lot with other rocky planets in our solar system, but astronomers have found a few mountains out there that are nothing like ours. SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: rokoko, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Lazarus G, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.universetoday.com/89093/rhea-silvia-super-mysterious-south-pole-basin-at-vesta-is-named-after-romulus-and-remus-roman-mother/ https://web.archive.org/web/20131017003603/http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/feature_stories/new_view_vesta_mountain.asp https://airandspace.si.edu/multimedia-gallery/4326640jpg https://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/books/CB-954/chapter3.pdf https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lro2009/pdf/6030.pdf https://www.nature.com/news/icy-volcanoes-may-dot-pluto-s-surface-1.18756 https://www.space.com/31073-pluto-ice-volcano-mountains-photos.html http://www-geodyn.mit.edu/lu_caloris_pss11.pdf http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2011/3004.html https://www.princeton.edu/news/2011/10/19/impact-study-princeton-model-shows-fallout-giant-meteorite-strike ------ Images: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/features/2012/earth-day-events.html https://images.nasa.gov/details-PIA14711.html https://images.nasa.gov/details-PIA15678.html https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/mountain-pasture-gm496705935-41644628 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/water-drop-falling-dgiocv8 https://images.nasa.gov/details-PIA15667.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Craterstructure.gif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mercury_in_color_-_Prockter07-edit1.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MESSENGER_first_photo_of_unseen_side_of_mercury_cropped_to_Caloris.jpg https://images.nasa.gov/details-PIA11245.html https://images.nasa.gov/details-PIA09113.html https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160115.html https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap151114.html

The mission has ended for NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, but the science lives on. Dawn was an intrepid explorer of the asteroid belt and the first mission to orbit two worlds beyond Earth: https://go.nasa.gov/2zl1Y5T. For more info on the mission, visit https://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov

Original air date: Friday, Sept. 7 at 11 a.m. PT (2 p.m. ET, 1800 UTC) Join JPL for a Science Chat to talk about the role of the agency's Dawn spacecraft in studying the beginning of our solar system, and the approaching end of its 11-year mission. Participants include: Jim Green, NASA chief scientist Carol Raymond, Dawn principal investigator at JPL Marc Rayman, Dawn mission director and chief engineer at JPL Follow us on your favorite social media platforms for updates @NASAJPL.

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft turned science fiction into science fact by using ion propulsion to explore the two largest bodies in the main asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres. The mission will end this fall, when the spacecraft runs out of hydrazine, which keeps it oriented and in communication with Earth. For more info on the mission, visit https://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov

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European Southern Observatory telescopes were used to confirm that Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) 2004 EW95 is carbon-rich, suggesting it was born in the inner solar system. Astronomers believe that the space rock formed in the asteroid belt and at some point was jolted into a trip to the Kuiper Belt. -- Full Story: https://www.space.com/40532-exiled-ancient-asteroid-discovered.html Credit: ESO

Animated view of 14 099 asteroids in our Solar System, as viewed by ESA’s Gaia satellite using information from the mission’s second data release. The orbits of the 200 brightest asteroids are also shown, as determined using Gaia data. In future data releases, Gaia will also provide asteroid spectra and enable a complete characterisation of the asteroid belt. The combination of dynamical and physical information that is being collected by Gaia provides an unprecedented opportunity to improve our understanding of the origin and the evolution of the Solar System. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, CC BY SA 3.0 IGO Acknowledgement: Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC); Orbits: Gaia Coordinating Unit 4; P. Tanga, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, France; F. Spoto, IMCCE, Observatoire de Paris, France; Animation: Gaia Sky; S. Jordan / T. Sagristà, Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg, Germany ★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe Learn more: bit.ly/GaiaRickestStarMap

NASA's asteroid-hunting NEOWISE survey uses infrared to detect and characterize asteroids and comets. Since the mission was restarted in December 2013, NEOWISE has observed or detected more than 29,000 asteroids in infrared light, of which 788 were near-Earth objects. The orbits of Mercury, Venus and Mars are shown in blue. Earth's orbit is in teal. Green dots represent near-Earth objects. Gray dots represent all other asteroids which are mainly in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Yellow squares represent comets. The survey depicted in the animation covers the period from December 13, 2013 to December 13, 2017.

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New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Good news! We're on the precipice of the next great gold rush... but it won't be in the hills of California. Or anywhere on this planet. It'll be in outer space, as there are untapped rare materials in asteroids that could be used for future technologies. That's right: there's gold in them thar skies! Theoretical physicist and one of our favorite Big Thinkers, Dr. Michio Kaku, explains to us that while China might have a stranglehold on the rare minerals and metals on our planet, there's no stopping interplanetary mining. We've even got an actual plan with actual economics already in place... we just have to wait until NASA's SLS rocket technology fully develops. Michio Kaku's latest book is the awesome The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth . ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MICHIO KAKU Dr. Michio Kaku is the co-founder of string field theory, and is one of the most widely recognized scientists in the world today. He has written 4 New York Times Best Sellers, is the science correspondent for CBS This Morning and has hosted numerous science specials for BBC-TV, the Discovery/Science Channel. His radio show broadcasts to 100 radio stations every week. Dr. Kaku holds the Henry Semat Chair and Professorship in theoretical physics at the City College of New York (CUNY), where he has taught for over 25 years. He has also been a visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, as well as New York University (NYU). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSCRIPT: Michio Kaku: When I was researching my book The Future of Humanity I came across a comment made by Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson made the biggest gamble of his life buying the Louisiana Purchase from Napoleon. Napoleon was fighting the British he needed hard cash immediately. He had Louisiana and that whole middle portion of the United States and so Napoleon sold it to Thomas Jefferson for a song. But Thomas Jefferson thought how long would it take to investigate what he had just purchased? He had doubled the size of the USA. Think about that. And he probably violated the Constitution in the process. Everyone forgets that. Everyone glosses over that fact, but hey when Louis and Clark went into the territories that comprised the Louisiana Purchase they found tremendous prospects for wealth and prosperity, but Thomas Jefferson wrote that it may take a thousand years, a thousand years before they could then begin to settle the west. Well, how long did it take? A few decades. Because what happened? Gold. Gold was discovered in California sparking the gold rush and within just a few years millions of prospectors, settlers, fortune hunters converged on California. It didn’t take a thousand years to develop that. Then the question now is, is there going to be a new gold rush in outer space? Some people think so. Some Google billionaires have created an organization, a company, Planetary Resources, that are looking into prospecting in the asteroid belt. Now, asteroids come in all shapes and sizes and we’re cataloging them now and we have already found some perspective asteroids that could be mined. One asteroid perhaps maybe 30/50 feet across brought back down either to the moon or to the planet earth could, in fact, yield billions of dollars in rewards because of the rare earths and the platinum type medals that you find inside. You see, the electronics industry is dependent upon rare earths. Where are these rare earth elements found it? Mainly in China. They’re everywhere, of course, but China has the most developed market and the Chinese in turn supply on the order of 90 percent of the rare earths. Well, a few years ago they decided to capitalize that and raise the price. All of a sudden shockwaves, shockwaves spread around the earth because people realized that oh my God China has a stranglehold, a stranglehold on high technology. How can you build the next iPhone if you don’t have the rare earths to make the transistors and to make the delicate components of these high tech devices? So I think what’s happening here is that some people see an area for profit and that is asteroid mining. Now of course, the infrastructure for that doesn’t exist, but NASA has looked at its budget and does have a program that has been shelved temporarily to redirect an asteroid. The Asteroid Redirect Program is to send the SL ass booster rocket into outer space with the... For the full transcript, check out https://bigthink.com/videos/michio-kaku-asteroid-mining-will-happen-sooner-than-you-think

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The Main Asteroid Belt sits between Mars and Jupiter. How did it form? Did there used to be a planet there? Get a month’s worth of shaving supplies from Harry’s for just $10 by entering DNEWS at checkout! ►►►► http://hrys.co/dnews Why Are The Planets In The Order They’re In? ►►►► http://bit.ly/1MXXBKN Sign Up For The TestTube Newsletter Here ►►►► http://bit.ly/1myXbFG Read More: Bode's Law http://www.astro.cornell.edu/academics/courses/astro201/bodes_law.htm “The Titius-Bode Law is rough rule that predicts the spacing of the planets in the Solar System. The relationship was first pointed out by Johann Titius in 1766 and was formulated as a mathematical expression by J.E. Bode in 1778. It lead Bode to predict the existence of another planet between Mars and Jupiter in what we now recognize as the asteroid belt.” Asteroid belt http://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/asteroid_belt.htm “The asteroid belt is a region of the solar system falling roughly between the planets Mars and Jupiter where the greatest concentration of asteroid orbits can be found.” ____________________ DNews is dedicated to satisfying your curiosity and to bringing you mind-bending stories & perspectives you won't find anywhere else! New videos twice daily. Watch More DNews on TestTube http://testtube.com/dnews Subscribe now! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=dnewschannel DNews on Twitter http://twitter.com/dnews Trace Dominguez on Twitter https://twitter.com/tracedominguez Julia Wilde on Twitter https://twitter.com/julia_sci DNews on Facebook https://facebook.com/DiscoveryNews DNews on Google+ http://gplus.to/dnews Discovery News http://discoverynews.com Download the TestTube App: http://testu.be/1ndmmMq Sign Up For The TestTube Mailing List: http://dne.ws/1McUJdm

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The MISSIONS series at Cross Campus Pasadena continues with the first mission to orbit two mysterious bodies in our solar system. Mat Kaplan and Emily Lakdawalla will welcome Dawn Mission Director Marc Rayman for this live conversation. What are those bright spots on Ceres anyway? Program begins at 7:00pm Pacific.

The asteroid belt provides important clues into the history of our solar system. Meteorite specialist Denton Ebel, curator in the Division of Physical Sciences, explains different theories of solar system formation and how the asteroid belt figures into the stable configuration of planets that we know today. #asteroids #asteroidbelt #planets #space #solarsystem #astronomy #astrophysics ASTEROID CRASH COURSE Asteroids can be hazardous to life on Earth, but they also provide clues about the early solar system. In the Asteroid Crash Course video series, Denton Ebel, curator in the Museum's Division of Physical Sciences, explains how asteroids formed and the varying degrees of destruction they cause when they fall to Earth. What is an Asteroid? https://youtu.be/LopiH8cXtkI Meteorite, Meteor: What’s the Difference? https://youtu.be/9NASWzKQ-2I What Were the Biggest Asteroids to Hit Earth? https://youtu.be/CGkjTYqtpco Can Asteroids Be Deflected? https://youtu.be/iVJPf_dqQyc What Happens When Large Meteorites Fall to Earth? https://youtu.be/jm_NHMPnv34 How Are Large Asteroids Tracked? https://youtu.be/JGtKyYxmvpY VIDEO CREDITS: WHY ARE THERE NO PLANETS IN THE ASTEROID BELT? Credits VIDEO: AMNH/J. Bauerle PHOTOGRAPHY ESA/Rosetta Eumestat VISUALIZATIONS B612 Foundation “Journey to the Stars” by AMNH, the California Academy of Sciences, GOTO Inc., Papalote Museo del Niño, and And Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum NASA NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab NASA/JPL MUSIC “Solar System” by G. Small and F. Gerard/ Warner Chappell Production Music SOUND EFFECTS “Asteroid Bad Connection Breathless Stinger” by Sam Ecoff and Samuel E. Ghanish/Warner Chappell Production Music “Harp Glisses” by Craig Sharmat/Warner Chappell Production Music “Spooky Spiral” by Robert Dudzic, Warner Chappell Production Music Freesound.org/martian, RMaudio, Selector JOURNEY TO THE STARS Journey to the Stars was developed by the American Museum of Natural History, New York in collaboration with the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco; GOTO INC, Tokyo, Japan; Papalote Museo del Niño, Mexico City, Mexico and Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C. Journey to the Stars was created by the American Museum of Natural History, with the major support and partnership of NASA, Science Mission Directorate, Heliophysics Division. Made possible through the generous sponsorship of Lockheed Martin. And proudly sponsored by Accenture. Supercomputing resources provided by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin, through the TeraGrid, a project of the National Science Foundation. StorNext File System donated by Quantum. This video and all media incorporated herein (including text, images, and audio) are the property of the American Museum of Natural History or its licensors, all rights reserved. The Museum has made this video available for your personal, educational use. You may not use this video, or any part of it, for commercial purposes, nor may you reproduce, distribute, publish, prepare derivative works from, or publicly display it without the prior written consent of the Museum. © American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY

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(25 Apr 2005) San Diego, California, USA - recent 1: ANIMATION sequence of asteroid belt around distant star 2: SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Charles Beichman, NASA: "I think we're trying to build up a picture... 3: ANIMATION sequence of Spitzer telescope 4: SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Charles Beichman, NASA: "This will not generate any images... 5: ANIMATION sequence of view of asteroid belt from planet SUGGESTED LEAD-IN: NASA scientists have discovered what they believe may be a giant asteroid belt circling a star 41 light years away. The phenomenon was first glimpsed by the Spitzer telescope which, like the Hubble telescope, is in orbit near to Earth. Unlike, Hubble however, which sees in the visible spectrum, Spitzer looks into the infra-red band. It detected a heat source associated with multiple collisions of rocky material. NASA believes the information may help the search for terrestrial planets similar to our own, some of which may contain life. VOICE-OVER: This is what scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory think they may have found - a massive asteroid belt containing twenty five times more material than the one in our solar system. It circles a star 41 light years away. What interests the scientists is that it may give clues as to how rocky planets, like our own Earth formed - and where to look for them. SOUNDBITE: (English) "I think we're trying to build up a picture of planetary systems and over the next decade or so we'll be able to give a very complete picture of how this system behaves and how solar systems like our own sun form and eventually be able to look for other terrestrial planets possibly with signs of life." SUPER CAPTION: Dr. Charles Beichman, NASA The phenomenon was observed by the Spitzer telescope. Less well known that its orbiting fellow, Hubble, Spitzer observes the universe in the infra-red part of the spectrum. Spitzer looks for heat sources and what it found orbiting star 69830 was excess radiation associated with a massive amount of rocky material. When dust and larger rocks jostle each other they create friction and minature explosions which Spitzer picked up. Eventually Hubble's attention will be focused on the phenomenon, because the system is too far away for Spitzer to generate an image SOUNDBITE: (English) "This will not generate any images. The star is too far away for us to generate an image. Now we do have scheduled time on the Hubble telescope and that might get us an image, but that won't be for another 3 to 6 months. We're working closely with the Hubble people and we might be able to see a hint of the disc in such a Hubble image." SUPER CAPTION: Dr. Charles Beichman, NASA And this is what you might see on a hypothetical planet in the solar system that Spitzer observed. As the sun sets and the sky darkens, the asteroid belt is revealed as a brilliant band of light, sparkling as asteroids collide with each other. What is not shown are the planetary impacts that scientists say must occur when an asteroid belt is so close and so massive. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/d89813467ba91d7b6c643a7577eceb17 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork