The Moon is big enough to have a "down."
Most asteroids you can dock with --and far enough out, you have a brutal type of cryovolcanism that could be harsh.
Ceres may have the perfect amount of gravity and heat to where hydrodynamics is all.
Awhile back, I made the mistake of calling something physics free. What I meant was--you can be frilly like a sea horse as long as you don't swim fast to where evolution starts to streamline you.
This whole body of Ceres may be an organic chemistry version of a fractionating tower--with enough dirt and crud to keep the Sun from drying you out.
Might a physical fractal be possible for Ceres level gravity?
Life perhaps spawns there--then gets spalled off? Or at least concentrated organics that our planet refines with our smokers from a younger, hotter Earth serving as alembics of the deep?
No wonder we're alone.
• Major Discovery of Loud Gravitational... 
.
