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    Ceres (minor-planet designation: 1 Ceres) is a dwarf planet in the middle main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It was the first known...
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    In ancient Roman religion, Ceres (/ˈsɪəriːz/ SEER-eez, Latin: [ˈkɛreːs]) was a goddess of agriculture, grain crops, fertility and motherly relationships...
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    Astronomico di Palermo – Giuseppe S. Vaiana. He is perhaps most famous for his discovery of the first dwarf planet, Ceres. No documented account of Piazzi's...
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    small rubble piles under a kilometer across and larger than meteoroids, to Ceres, a dwarf planet almost 1000 km in diameter. Of the roughly one million known...
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    second asteroid to have been discovered, after Ceres, and is a likely remnant protoplanet. Like Ceres, it is believed to have a mineral composition similar...
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    geology of Ceres consists of the characteristics of the surface, the crust and the interior of the dwarf planet Ceres. The surface of Ceres is comparable...
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    Dawn (spacecraft) (category Ceres (dwarf planet))
    studying two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt: Vesta and Ceres. In the fulfillment of that mission—the ninth in NASA's Discovery Program—Dawn...
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  • harvesting, and storing crops. Preeminent among these are such major deities as Ceres and Saturn, but a large number of the many Roman deities known by name either...
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    Quaoar, Ceres, Orcus, and Sedna. Considering the ten largest candidates adds Salacia. Of these ten, two have been visited by spacecraft (Pluto and Ceres) and...
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    belt objects, Plutinos Sulphur (S) – Mercury; Earth; Mars; Jupiter moons – Io and Europa Salts – Earth, Mars, Ceres, Europa and Jupiter Trojans, Enceladus...
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  • Ceres Fruit Juices Pty Ltd, trading as The Ceres Beverage Company, is a beverage company based in Paarl, South Africa. It produces fruit juice and other...
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    S2CID 4396841. NASA (July 28, 2022). "Ceres-overview". NASA. Retrieved February 7, 2023. O'Neill, Ian (5 March 2009). "Life on Ceres: Could the Dwarf Planet be the...
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  • Ceres School is a historic two-room school building located at Ceres in Allegany County, New York. It was built in 1855 and remodeled in 1893 with Italianate...
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  • particular: Ceres in the inner Solar System and four in the trans-Neptunian region: Pluto, Eris, Haumea, and Makemake. Only Pluto and Ceres have been confirmed...
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    among astronomers that the Solar System has at least nine dwarf planets: Ceres, Orcus, Pluto, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, Eris, and Sedna. There...
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    Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z "Google Maps". Google Maps. Retrieved 19 April 2018....
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    Anatolian goddess Cybele, and she was identified with the Roman goddess Ceres. Demeter may appear in Linear A as da-ma-te on three documents (AR Zf 1...
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    Bibcode:1988AcAau..17..457O. doi:10.1016/0094-5765(88)90059-8. Leonard, Raymond S.; Johnson, Stewart W. (1988-01-01). "Power requirements for mining and microwave processing...
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    Cryovolcano (section Ceres)
    currently ongoing. That brine exists in Ceres's interior implies that salts played a role in keeping Ceres's subsurface ocean liquid, potentially even...
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    1016/0032-0633(95)00061-5. Neumann, W.; Breuer, D.; Spohn, T. (2 December 2015). "Modelling the internal structure of Ceres: Coupling of accretion with compaction...
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    4 Vesta (category V-type asteroids (Tholen))
    second-largest asteroid, both by mass and by volume, after the dwarf planet Ceres. Measurements give it a nominal volume only slightly larger than that of...
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    Ceres is an unincorporated community in Bland County, Virginia, United States. Ceres is located on State Route 42 13.5 miles (21.7 km) west-southwest of...
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  • Ceres station is a future Altamont Corridor Express rail station in the city of the same name. It was expected to open to revenue service in 2024 as the...
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    3 Juno (category S-type asteroids (Tholen))
    second-most-massive S-type asteroid after 15 Eunomia. Even so, Juno has only 3% the mass of Ceres. The orbital period of Juno is 4.36578 years. Amongst S-type asteroids...
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  • Phaeton (hypothetical planet) (category Ceres (dwarf planet))
    supposedly led to the formation of the asteroid belt (including the dwarf planet Ceres). The hypothetical planet was named for Phaethon, the son of the sun god...
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  • initially takes place in the Solar System, using many real locations such as Ceres and Eros in the asteroid belt, the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and small...
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  • ending in -s, the oblique stem and therefore the English adjective changes the -s to a -d, -t, or -r, as in Mars–Martian, Pallas–Palladian and Ceres–Cererian;...
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    County, S.P. detective Will Smith, and Wells Fargo detectives Hume and Thacker arrived to bring the two men to Modesto to stand trial for the Ceres robbery...
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    with a very low escape velocity of 510 m/s. Researchers have speculated that the interior configuration of Ceres includes a water-ice-rich mantle over a...
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    System – Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars – and one terrestrial dwarf planet: Ceres. Earth is the only terrestrial planet known to have an active hydrosphere...
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