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These two planetary objects – the former a dwarf planet within the Asteroid Belt and the latter an icy moon orbiting Saturn – might not seem to have much in common at first. Nevertheless, they both might host subsurface bodies of liquid water under their icy crusts, making them candidates for the ocean worlds’ club whose five members already include Enceladus, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, and Titan.
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Henin, B. (2018). Ceres and Dione. In: Exploring the Ocean Worlds of Our Solar System. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93476-1_9
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