Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for April 19, 2015

According to Google, Ceres was discovered 129 years before Pluto.

R.U. Ceres‽

If Ceres is so much smaller than the Moon, and is a dwarf planet, does that mean the Moon is a planet? I’m so confused….

If Pluto is not a dwarf planet, does that mean we have to change its name to Sneezy. Bashful or Doc?

I think this is one Ceres that will never get cancelled! (nowI will duck!)

ok…the two bright lights shining from Ceres are not proof of communications from the non~planet/ planet light/Avatar not moon…whatever you call it…but it does remind me in some strange way of my first day of vacation on the beach…

Next up – the asteroids of Uranus.

(As I said last sunday ) I do love science Sundays !

I couldn’t see Ceres last night and now I know it was because of the eclipse. This comic strip eclipses everything else on Rockit Science Sunday.

When Dawn gets there, it can confirm what Tony Orlando first noted in a flyby in the 70s.

Keep up to date on Dawn at JPL’s official blog: http://dawnblog.jpl.nasa.gov/ Dawn was in the dark behind Ceres at the beginning of April, and should be coming back around to take more pictures soon (and closer to Ceres too).

If this really had anything to do with mythical “political correctness”, we would have to call it a " little people planet."