By the mid-26th century two great cities had risen from the ashes, thanks in large part to the " Ceres Project ”.

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 Ceres Project

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 Brewery was a brewery located in Aarhus, Denmark.

Ceres Brewery was founded by a grocer named Malthe Conrad Lottrup, with help from the chemists A. S. Aagard and Knud Redelien, as the city's seventh brewery.

It was named after the Roman goddess Ceres, and its opening was announced in the local newspaper, Stiftstidende, in 1856.

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

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.

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

An early name of the constellation was Sicilia, because Ceres, patron goddess of Sicily, was claimed to have begged Jupiter that the island be placed in the heavens.

She was the daughter of Ceres, goddess of agriculture and crops and Jupiter, the god of sky and thunder.

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 ).

This story was undoubtedly meant to illustrate the changing of the seasons: when Ceres welcomes her daughter back in the spring the earth blossoms, and when Proserpina must be returned to her husband it withers.

Ceres was discovered by accident just as the search was getting underway.

In ancient Roman religion, Ceres (, ) was a goddess of agriculture, grain crops, fertility and motherly relationships.

She was originally the central deity in Rome's so-called plebeian or Aventine Triad, then was paired with her daughter Proserpina in what Romans described as " the Greek rites of Ceres ".

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

Throughout the Roman era, Ceres ' name was synonymous with grain and, by extension, with bread.

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.

In January, Ceres was offered spelt wheat and a pregnant sow, along with the earth-goddess Tellus at the movable Feriae Sementivae.

The discovery of Ceres led Gauss to his work on a theory of the motion of planetoids disturbed by large planets, eventually published in 1809 as Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientum ( Theory of motion of the celestial bodies moving in conic sections around the Sun ).

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

* Ceres Storm, a 2000 science fiction novel by American author David Herter

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.

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.

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.

In Ancient Rome and throughout Italy, the ancient sanctuaries of Ceres and Proserpina were invariably led by female sacerdotes, drawn from women of local and Roman elites.

The Consualia, with its semi-mythical establishment by Romulus, and the Cerealia, the major festival of Ceres, were probably older than the earliest historically attested " Roman Games " ( Ludi Romani ) held at the Circus in honour of Jupiter in 366 BC.

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.

Grimm says that " expositors see in this the golden fruits of the Earth burnt up by fire and growing again, they liken Sif to Ceres ", and Grimm says that " with it agrees the fact that O. Slav.

Adult males were excluded from bridal processions ; these took place at night and were headed by a young boy, who carried a torch in honour of Ceres.

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.

Landowners who allowed their flocks to graze on public land were fined by the plebeian aediles, on behalf of Ceres and the people of Rome.

Champlin ( 2003 ) perceives the expiations to Vulcan and Ceres in particular as attempted populist appeals by the ruling emperor, Nero.

According to interpretatio romana, which sought the equivalence of Roman to Greek deities, she was an equivalent to Demeter, one of the Twelve Olympians of Greek religion and mythology ; this made Ceres one of Rome's twelve Di Consentes, daughter of Saturn and Ops, sister of Jupiter, mother of Proserpina by Jupiter and sister of Juno, Vesta, Neptune and Pluto.

" 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.

Ceres bears a torch, sometimes two, and rides in a chariot drawn by snakes ; or she sits on the sacred kiste ( chest ) that conceals the objects of her mystery rites.

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

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

Several months later, when Ceres should have reappeared, Piazzi could not locate it: the mathematical tools of the time were not able to extrapolate a position from such a scant amount of data — three degrees represent less than 1 % of the total orbit.

* Ceres School, a historic school building located at Ceres in Allegany County, New York.

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

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.

The word cereal derives from Ceres, the name of the Roman goddess of harvest and agriculture.

Barnard did his internship and residency at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, after which he worked as a general practitioner in Ceres, a rural town in the Cape Province.

Her Roman equivalent is Ceres.

According to their website, Ceres Power, a UK SOFC fuel cell manufacturer, has developed a method of reducing the operating temperature of their SOFC system to 500-600 degrees Celsius.

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.

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.

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.