This year, NASA's Dawn and New Horizons rendezvoused with Ceres and Pluto, respectively. These worlds, despite their modest sizes, have much to teach us about the accretion of the Solar System and its dynamical evolution.
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NASA / JPL-CALTECH / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA (LEFT) NASA / JHUAPL / SWRI (RIGHT)
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McKinnon, W. Exploring the dwarf planets. Nature Phys 11, 608–611 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3394
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