On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 22:10:29 GMT, Esmail Bonakdarian
wrote:

This looks almost fake being so perfectly spherical .. am I missing something
here? I thought asteroids were kind of jagged pieces of rock ...

Ceres is about 1000km in diameter- half the size of Pluto. Anything that
big has enough self-gravity to become spherical.

_________________________________________________

Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com