Watch: Fly over the dwarf planet Ceres in this new NASA video

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Great.
When can we start mining them? I want my cheap platinum and I want it now.

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Damn. If I’d known I would have saved my fingernails for you. Cisplatin made them fall out like crazy.

On another note, every time I read “dwarf planet” I expect the photos to look something like this.

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IN the not too distant future
Next Sunday, A.D. –
There was a guy named Joel,
Not too different from you or me.
He worked at Gizmonic Institute,
Just another face in a red jumpsuit.
He did a good job cleaning up the place,
But his bosses didn’t like him
So they shot him into space.

sorry the exaggerated verticals just reminded me of that opening from MST3K

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It kind of looks like an effect from a 1950 SF film, where Planetoid X looks like something the props department makes by layering papier mache on a Spalding kickball.

“The vertical dimension has been exaggerated by a factor of two, and a star field has been added in the background.”

Ah, there we go.

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keep expecting it to rotate to:

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Just show me a close up of the white spots already.

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I feel like eating a giant Ferrero Rocher now.

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Pee on it, fart on it and sprinkle it with some sand and coal dust and you’ll get a comet-grade space ice cream.

d_d

It clearly says “69” in that crater.

YOU’RE NOT READY.

Regards,
Secret Master Angstrom

No matter how many times I see images from these remote and amazing worlds, I always marvel at how shit they are compared to ours.

It’s Ferrero Roche all the way down. In a pyramid formation.

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Here’s the latest, closest pic:

The bright spots are where the surface accumulation of dust and grit have been scraped away revealing the crystalline mantle through which shines the light of a central sunlet.

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