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What is the maximum angular diameter of the largest asteroid, Ceres, as seen from Earth?...

What is the maximum angular diameter of the largest asteroid, Ceres, as seen from Earth? Could Earth-based telescopes detect surface features? Could the Hubble Space Telescope? (Hints: Use the small-angle formula, Chapter 3. The angular resolution of Earth-based telescopes is about 1 arc second and of Hubble about 0.1 arc second. Ceres’s average distance from the sun is 2.8 AU.)

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