In that same year, Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres.

Remotely guided space probes have flown by all of the planets of the Solar System from Mercury to Neptune, with the New Horizons probe currently en route to fly by the dwarf planet Pluto and the Dawn spacecraft en route to the dwarf planet Ceres.

Another powerful ion-drive mission, Dawn, is in orbit of the large asteroid Vesta in July 2011 and will later move on to the dwarf planet Ceres in 2015.

Among the Laboratory's current major active projects are the Mars Science Laboratory mission ( which includes the Curiosity rover ), the Cassini – Huygens mission orbiting Saturn, the Mars Exploration Rovers ( Spirit and Opportunity ), the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Dawn mission to the dwarf planet Ceres and asteroid Vesta, the Juno spacecraft en route to Jupiter, the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory ( GRAIL ) mission to the Moon, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array ( NuSTAR ) X-ray telescope, and the Spitzer Space Telescope.

As of 2008, only five objects in the Solar System, Ceres, Eris, and the KBOs Pluto, Makemake and Haumea, are listed as dwarf planets by the IAU.

** Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the asteroid and former dwarf planet Ceres.

* 2, 800, 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup > -- Ceres ( smallest dwarf planet )

* NASA's Dawn spacecraft is expected to arrive at the dwarf planet Ceres.

Among the dwarf planets, Ceres has no moons.

* 1801 – Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet – asteroid Ceres

* 2006 – The 26th General Assembly of the IAU voted in favor of a revised definition of a planet and officially declared Ceres, Pluto, and Eris dwarf planets.

The dwarf planet Ceres ( discovered 1801 ), is named after this goddess.

Perhaps his most famous discovery was of the dwarf planet Ceres.

Ceres is today called a dwarf planet.

Category: Ceres ( dwarf planet )

Among the dwarf planets, it is 90 percent certain that has no moons larger than 1 km in size, assuming that they would have the same albedo as Ceres itself.

Giuseppe Piazzi | Piazzi's discovery of Ceres ( dwarf planet ) | Ceres, described in his book Della scoperta del nuovo pianeta Cerere Ferdinandea, demonstrated the utility of the Gaussian gravitation constant in predicting the positions of objects within the Solar System.

Average density is from Nimmo and Tanaka ( 2005 ), p. 138 .</ ref > about the same as the dwarf planet Ceres.

* Dawn, a mission to study the dwarf planet Ceres and large asteroid Vesta ; launched in September 2007.

Ceres ( dwarf planet ) | Ceres, the largest asteroid, is a G-type

Simultaneously, the large number of known asteroids in the belt resulted in Ceres no longer being considered a planet at that time.

# The Brentford Triangle ( 1982 )-Pooley and Omally thwart an alien invasion of Earth when the natives of Ceres ( the fifth planet in the solar system before it exploded and became the asteroid belt ) come back to the system and seek a new home.

Tempel 1 passed within 0. 04 AU ( 5. 9 million kilometres ) of the dwarf planet Ceres on November 11, 2011.

* Ceres ( Roman mythology ), the Roman goddess of agriculture

* Ceres ( organization ), a coalition of investors and environmentalists ( formerly the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies )

* Ceres, Celestial Legend ( Ayashi no Ceres ), an anime / manga work

* Ceres ( workstation ), a computer workstation built at ETH Zürich

* Ceres series ( disambiguation ), several series of postage stamps representing the goddess Ceres

* Ceres ( 2005 ), an orchestral work by Mark-Anthony Turnage

* Ceres ( Women's Agricultural Fraternity ), a sorority founded in 1985.

* Keres ( mythology ), death spirits unconnected with Ceres

In Classical Greek and Roman myth, various goddesses represented the Earth, seasons, crops and fertility, including Demeter and Persephone ; Ceres ; the Horae ( goddesses of the seasons ), and Proserpina ; and Hades ( Pluto ) who ruled the souls of dead in the Underworld.

While eight of the planetary bodies discovered before 1950 remain " planets " under modern definition, some celestial bodies, such as Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta ( each an object in the Solar asteroid belt ) and Pluto ( the first-discovered trans-Neptunian object ), that were once considered planets by the scientific community are no longer viewed as such.

This complex concept is reflected in Martianus Capella's division of heaven ( found in Book I of his De Nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae ), which places the Di Consentes Penates in region I with the Favores Opertanei ; Ceres and Genius in region V ; Pales in region VI ; Favor and Genius ( again ) in region VII ( Secundanus Pales ) and Fortuna and Favor Pastor in region XI.

Accompanying the classical planets in this grand conjunction were Uranus ( technically visible unaided in pollution-free skies ), Ceres, and Pallas.

Ceres was credited with the discovery of spelt wheat ( Latin far ), the yoking of oxen and ploughing, the sowing, protection and nourishing of the young seed, and the gift of agriculture to humankind ; before this, it was said, man had subsisted on acorns, and wandered without settlement or laws.

Ceres was thus the patron goddess of Rome's written laws ; the poet Vergil later calls her legifera Ceres ( Law-bearing Ceres ), a translation of Demeter's Greek epithet, thesmophoros.

Ceres had strong mythological and cult connections with Sicily, especially at Henna ( Enna ), on whose " miraculous plain " flowers bloomed throughout the year.

In 496 BC, against a background of economic recession and famine in Rome, imminent war against the Latins and a threatened secession by Rome's plebs ( citizen commoners ), the dictator A. Postumius vowed a temple to Ceres, Liber and Libera on or near the Aventine Hill.

During the Late Imperial era, Ceres gradually " slips into obscurity "; the last known official association of the Imperial family with her symbols is a coin issue of Septimius Severus ( AD 193 – 211 ), showing his empress, Julia Domna, in the corona spicea.

The Ceres Ocean that separates Osea from Yuktobania is the smallest of all oceans.

Asimov then pointed out that there was a large gap in size between Mercury, the smallest planetary body that was considered to be undoubtedly a major planet, and Ceres, the largest planetary body that was considered to be undoubtedly a minor planet.