The Ceres mystery continues.  Except this time it is not regarding bright spots or any pyramid like formations:

Planetary scientists have a new mystery to investigate: Ceres, a dwarf planet that orbits the sun between Mars and Jupiter, appears to have significantly fewer craters on its surface than scientists had expected.

Meteorites that crash into the surface of planets and other bodies in the solar system usually leave behind carved-out pockmarks as evidence of the collisions. Older bodies tend to accumulate more craters than young bodies, and scientists can use their estimates of Ceres’ age to calculate the number of craters that should be littered across its surface.

But the count has come up short, said Simone Marchi, a researcher at the Southwest Research Institute.

Let’s find out two theories on why this dwarf planet may be missing these craters on page 2

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