Much like Star Trek's Starship Enterprise without its shields, when you're a planet without an atmosphere, space can be a dangerous place – especially in the earlier days of our Solar System's formation. With lots of asteroids floating around, chances are good that some doozies are going to smack into you. That is likely the case with dwarf planet Ceres, but its surface doesn't show any craters larger than 175 miles (280 kilometers) across. So what happened to the evidence? It looks like Ceres has been erasing it.
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from Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine http://ift.tt/2a5yUlx
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