Meet the Dwarf Planets - Episode 1 - Dwarf Planet Ceres - Outer Space / Astronomy Song by The Nirks

It’s Episode 1 of Meet the Dwarf Planets! You’ve met the planets with Vincent, and now it’s time to get to know the Dwarf Planets! In this episode, We’ll meet Ceres! Is Ceres a planet, an asteroid, or a dwarf planet?! Let’s find out! Join Ceres, Pluto, Eris, Makemake, and Haumea in this fun, energetic, educational song series and meet Ceres, up close and personal! Lyrics: I’m Ceres the closest dwarf planet to our sun Named after the harvest goddess of the Romans The only dwarf planet in the inner solar system I am not an asteroid but I live with them Dwarf planets all must have these main traits We must have an almost spherical shape An orbit around the sun, we can’t be moons you see And we can’t have broken free from surrounding space debris I make up nearly one third of all the mass in the asteroid belt here But I’m not called a planet even though I am a sphere I share my orbit with all of the asteroids around me Which scientists consider to be the space debris I’m Ceres the closest dwarf planet to our sun Named after the harvest goddess of the Romans The largest object in the asteroid belt, that’s me But I’m still the smallest of the dwarf planets you’ll meet I was spotted by Giuseppe Piazzi in 1801 He thought I was a planet, orbiting the sun Around 50 years later I was called an asteroid After more asteroids were discovered sharing the same orbit I enjoy Technically, I was the first asteroid to be discovered And almost 50 more years passed until the truth...