The Ceres Connection program was established in partnership with Science Service to name minor planets for students selected through an essay contest.

* Ceres Connection Program

Spurred by the success discovering Ceres ( see below ), and in the line of his catalogue program, Piazzi studied the proper motions of stars in order to find parallax measurement candidates.

Some early connection is likely between Ceres as goddess of grain crops and Consus as a god of grain storage and patron of the Circus.

Siva is a gloss on ' Ceres dea frumenti '" but cites etymological problems between the potential cognate.

In modern scholarship, this is taken as further evidence of long-standing connections between the plebeians, Ceres and Magna Graecia.

The relationship between the reigning emperor, empress and Ceres was formalised in titles such as Augusta mater agrorum (" The august mother of the fields ) and Ceres Augusta.

Several of an additional series of Ceres heads issued between 1872 and 1877 have a similar problem, and are distinguishable only by being imperforate, as was the Colonies part of the Peace and Commerce issue of 1877 to 1880.

She dies when she puts herself between Mikagi and a pregnant Ceres.

" Ceres became a story about the relationship between men and women.

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.

Rather than arbitrarily decide whether Pluto belonged with the major planets or the minor planets, Asimov suggested that any planetary body that fell within the size gap between Mercury and Ceres be called a mesoplanet, since mesos in the Greek language means " middle ".

Since the year 2000, several trans-Neptunian objects have been discovered that lie in size between Mercury and Ceres, which arguably strengthens the case for a special classification such as mesoplanet.

Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovers what appears to be a new planet orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, and names it Ceres.

The Ceres series of Portuguese postage stamps is a definitive series depicting the Roman goddess Ceres that was issued between 1912 and 1945 in Portugal and its colonies.

Other principal works include: the Lincoln Tomb, a sepulchral monument to President Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois ; Ethan Allen ( 1876 ), National Statuary Hall, United States Capitol, Washington, DC ; a heroic marble, Mississippi – The Father of Waters, Minneapolis City Hall ; Triumph of Ceres, made for the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, 1893 ; and a large bust of Lincoln in the Hall of Inscriptions at the Vermont Statehouse.

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.

Piazzi could only track Ceres for a few months, following it for three degrees across the night sky.

After three months of intense work, he predicted a position for Ceres in December 1801 — just about a year after its first sighting — and this turned out to be accurate within a half-degree when it was rediscovered by Franz Xaver von Zach on 31 December at Gotha, and one day later by Heinrich Olbers in Bremen.

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

* Colonization of Ceres, has been proposed as one possible target for human colonization in the inner Solar System

* Tellus was worshipped in the district Carinae at the Esquiline Hill, and a lectisternium or table was spread for Ceres.

Dawn, the first NASA operational ( i. e., non-technology demonstration ) mission to use an ion drive for its primary propulsion, is currently on track to explore and orbit the large main-belt asteroids 1 Ceres and 4 Vesta.

Oberon was designed for Oberon operating system which ran on the Ceres workstation ( built around the National Semiconductor 32032 CPU ) and the Chameleon workstation.

Her mother Ceres, also known as Demeter, the goddess of agriculture or of the Earth, went looking for her in vain to every corner of the earth, but was not able to find anything but a small belt that was floating upon a little lake ( made with the tears of the nymphs ).

The Ceres Alabado Award for Outstanding Contribution in Children's Literature ; the Gintong Aklat Award ( Golden Book Award ); The Gawad Komisyon para sa Kuwentong Pambata ( Commission Award for Children's Literature in Filipino ) and the National Book Award ( given by the Manila Critics ' Circle ) for Outstanding Production in Children's Books and Young Adult Literature.

The Romans saw her as the counterpart of the Greek goddess Demeter, whose mythology was reinterpreted for Ceres in Roman art and literature.

Ceres ' name may derive from the hypothetical Proto-Indo-European root * ker, meaning " to grow ", which is also a possible root for many English words, such as " create ", " cereal ", " grow ", " kernel ", " corn ", and " increase ".

The killing of the tribune Tiberius Gracchus in 133 BC was justified by some as rightful punishment for attempted tyranny, an offense against Ceres ' Lex sacrata.

In 70 BC, Cicero refers to this killing in connection with Ceres ' laws and cults, during his prosecution of Verres, Roman governor of Sicily, for extortion.

An adult who damaged or stole field-crops should be hanged " for Ceres ".

" When Ceres sought through all the earth with lit torches for Proserpina, who had been seized by Dis Pater, she called her with shouts where three or four roads meet ; from this it has endured in her rites that on certain days a lamentation is raised at the crossroads everywhere by the matronae.

He recommends that temples to Ceres be sited in rural areas: " in a solitary spot out of the city, to which the public are not necessarily led but for the purpose of sacrificing to her.

Some late Republican images recall Ceres ' search for Proserpina.

The plebeian aediles had minor or occasional priestly functions at Ceres ' Aventine Temple and were responsible for its management and financial affairs including collection of fines, the organisation of ludi Cerealia and probably the Cerealia itself.

Elsewhere, he describes Ceres ' Sicilian priestesses as " older women respected for their noble birth and character ".

Much later, during the early Imperial era, Ovid describes these goddesses as " partners in labour "; Ceres provides the " cause " for the growth of crops, while Tellus provides them a place to grow.

* Testimony of Authors respecting the Colossal Statue of Ceres in the Public Library, Cambridge ( 8vo, 1801 – 1803 )

San Gregorio Armeno in Naples was built in that century over the remains of a Roman temple dedicated to Ceres, by a group of nuns escaping from the Byzantine Empire with the relics of Gregory the Illuminator.

An inscription at Capua names a male sacerdos Cerialis mundalis, a priest dedicated to Ceres ' rites of the mundus.

In the 9th century, the first Cathedral was built on the ruins of the temple dedicated to the Goddess Ceres.

These were dedicated to Hera and Athena, although they have traditionally been identified as a basilica and temples of Neptune and Ceres, owing to 18th-century mis-attribution.

It was built in about 500 BC, and was for some time incorrectly thought to have been dedicated to Ceres.

Weiss is the Founder and Chairman of The Ceres Project, a small investment project dedicated to funding a new film and book by L. Neil Smith entitled Ceres, and is similarly the Founder and Chairman of the follow-up project, The Ares Alliance.

* the church of St. Benedict, the most ancient holy edifice within the walls, built in the 9th century over a temple dedicated to Ceres.