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Destination of NASA's Dawn probe
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ceres
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Roman goddess of agriculture (identified with Greek Demeter ), also the name given to the first-found and largest asteroid (discovered 1801); see cereal . Her festival, Cerealia , was April 10.
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Ceres (; minor-planet designation : 1 Ceres ) is the largest object in the asteroid belt that lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter . Its diameter is approximately , making it the largest of the minor planets within the orbit of Neptune . The 33rd- ...
Usage examples of ceres.
Furthermore, the observatories at Ceres, Vesta, Juno, or Pallas might pick up the flash.
There was Ceres, the largest of all, nearly five hundred miles in diameter.
He himself, Lucky thought ruefully, would do well to hit Ceres at a mile.
Still, if the Earth were hollow, it would be possible to throw into it four thousand bodies the size of Ceres before filling it up.
Bigman stood on the surface of Ceres, his figure bloated in a space-suit which had been loaded to bursting with lead weights and on shoes the soles of which were foot-thick lead clogs.
And the third largest airless object was Ceres, and that was the best of the three.
In short, Ceres was ideal for observation of the stars and of the outer planets.
It would just be an asteroid to him, not too far from Ceres, as good as any other, and he would make a beeline for it in order to wait for the furor on Ceres to die down.
Give me your co-ordinates with respect to Ceres right now and keep them that way, whatever you do, till I call you.
I made, maybe one or two a year, were short ones to Ceres or Vesta for supplies of one sort or another.
He wanted to get back to Ceres and he forced me along so he could claim he was being kidnapped if the men of the asteroids stopped him.
You admit yourself that I got off Ceres as fast as I could and tried to get back here.
If he could do that, he could radio it to Ceres, get it off his hands, and be free to go slamming down to the rock.
In response to this, almost inevitably, the defending forces on Ceres concentrated their power at that point.
In the lower depths, in the peaceful apartments of Ceres, the noise of blasting battle sounded.