What are those bright spots on the surface of Ceres? Oh, I know! Aliens! Or possibly Flash Gordon. |
Ceres played a prominent role in Science Fiction story I read about a zillion years ago. The rebels (or the enemy faction, I can't recall exactly) had their headquarters on Ceres. They had surrounded the rock with a multitude of smaller rocks, which they had placed all in different orbits. The idea was only those who knew the plan would be able to negotiate a path through these hurtling asteroids to the surface. Kept the riff-raff away.
Escape velocity for Ceres is a half a km per sec, (Earth its 11 km/sec), so you can't leave just by jumping off :-)
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