Pallas

== Overview ==
(2) Pallas is a main-belt asteroid and the third-largest in the Solar System. It is a B-type asteroid (type of carbonaceous asteroid), and was the second asteroid to be discovered, after Ceres. It is on average 511 kilometers wide and contains around 7% the mass of the asteroid belt. It is believed to have been a protoplanet. Despite Pallas' size, it seems to be in a shape that would not put it in hydrostatic equilibrium, and thus would not be a dwarf planet.
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