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File:Moon and Asteroids 1 to 10.svg

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Description Sizes of the first ten Asteroids to be discovered compared to the Earth's Moon, all to scale.

The objects, left to right are: 1 dwarf planet Ceres, 2 Pallas, 3 Juno, 4 Vesta, 5 Astraea, 6 Hebe, 7 Iris, 8 Flora, 9 Metis, and 10 Hygiea.

The scale is 10 km/px on the original image, though not necessarily on the repro here.
Date 18:56, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
Source 19:30, 6 July 2007 version on this page
Author Vystrix Nexoth
Permission
( Reusing this file)

See below. All I did was edit some of the values of ry and rx attributes by removing whitespace that made asteroids 5 through 9 invisible when viewed by clicking on the link to the file. Edited by Melab-1

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Public domain This work has been released into the public domain by its author, I, Vystrix Nexoth. This applies worldwide.
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