Now that a massive asteroid has 'finally' formed in the asteroid belt is it likely to clear its path 'soon' 2?

Now that a massive asteroid, Ceres 'finally' after such a 'long time' (in astronomical terms) formed 'way after' the other planets formed due to Jupiter's immense gravitational pull on clumps of asteroids, pulling them apart... is Ceres to become 'fully grown' and clear the asteroid belt within the relative amount of time it took the other inner planets to clear their orbits? After all, it's compacted to ware it's 1 rock and not a clump, and the inner rocky planets cleared their areas for millions of miles beyond their orbits.Now that a massive asteroid has 'finally' formed in the asteroid belt is it likely to clear its path 'soon' 2?
Ceres may be the largest asteroid, but it still has a diameter of about 550 miles. The Earth could hold more than 5000 bodies the volume of Ceres, and the masses would be of similar proportions. Its gravitational effect on the surrounding volume of space is very small, and asteroids are well-spaced.





Ceres formed about the same time as the rest of the Solar system, pretty much as it is now. It's been doing the same thing for about 4.6 billion years.Now that a massive asteroid has 'finally' formed in the asteroid belt is it likely to clear its path 'soon' 2?
Um, Ceres has been there for quite a while, it is not new in any sense.





Even if it does someday grow into a full fledged planet it will be long after we are all dead.
Ceres did not 'finally' or recently form. The asteroid is probably millions or billions of years old. The existence of a planet in the apparent gap (look up Bode's Law) between Mars and Jupiter had been suspected for many years when Ceres became the first asteroid (a term meaning ';star-like'; coined because like stars they were too far away to make out a disk like the other planets in the telescopes of the day) discovered on the first day of the 19th Century (January 1, 1801.) Three more were found in the next few years, then thousands more beginning in the 1850s. In fact, according to physics calculations, no large planet could come together between Mars and Jupiter because it is prevented by Jupiter's large gravitational field spreading the small rocks into several different semi-stable Jupiter-synchronous orbits. Because of the proximity and large mass of Jupiter, the asteroids are gradually being spread out rather than coming together.





What you may have heard is the recent ';decision'; of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to call Ceres, the largest asteroid, in fact at 974 km (604 miles) diameter larger than all the others put together, a ';dwarf planet'; rather than an asteriod in order to fill in Bode's gap, at least in nomenclature, with something called something of a planet. They ';promoted'; Ceres at the same time they ';demoted'; Pluto (diameter 2390 km or 1484 miles) from ';planet'; to ';dwarf planet';, along with defining several other recently discovered trans-Neptunian Kuiper Belt objects as such, at least one of which (Eris) is larger than Pluto.