Ceres

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Contents 1 Places 1.1 United States 1.2 Other countries 2 Businesses 3 In fiction 4 Other uses 5 Acronyms 6 See also

Ceres commonly refers to either:

• Ceres (dwarf planet), smallest of the three dwarf planets, originally classified as a planet, and later as the largest and first discovered asteroid.
• Ceres (mythology), the Roman goddess of agriculture.

Ceres may also refer to:

[edit] Places

[edit] United States

• Ceres, California
• Ceres, Georgia
• Ceres, Iowa
• Ceres, New York
• Ceres, Oklahoma
• Ceres, Virginia
• Ceres, Washington
• Ceres, West Virginia

[edit] Other countries

• Ceres, Victoria, Australia
• Ceres, Goiás, Brazil
• Ceres (TO), Italy
• Ceres, Fife, Scotland
• Ceres, Western Cape, South Africa

[edit] Businesses

• Ceres Brewery, a brewery in Aarhus, Denmark
• Ceres Hellenic Shipping Enterprises, a Greek shipping company
• Ceres (organization), a coalition of investors and environmentalists (formerly the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies)
• Ceres Fruit Juices, the South African juice company
• Ceres, Inc., the developer of energy crops

[edit] In fiction

• Ceres, Celestial Legend (Ayashi no Ceres), an anime/manga work. The main character Aya is descended from a celestial Goddess named Ceres.
• In the anime TV series Sailor Moon there is a character called CereCere, derived from Ceres along with PallaPalla, JunJun and VesVes derived from the respective asteroids. In the manga they are later known as the Sailor Quartet who are one of the various groups of the Sailor Senshi
• In the Super Nintendo game Super Metroid (1994), the Ceres Space Colony is where Samus Aran takes the last surviving Metroid hatchling from SR-388.
• Seras Victoria, a character in the anime/manga Hellsing, of which an alternate romanization is "Ceres"

[edit] Other uses

• the plural of cere, a structure at the base of some bird's beaks.
• Ceres (workstation), a computer workstation
• Ceres series, a series of postage stamps representing the goddess Ceres
• HMS Ceres, three ships of the British Royal Navy
• Ceres, a West Cornwall Railway steam locomotive

[edit] Acronyms

• CERES Community Environment Park (Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies), a community environmental park in Melbourne, Australia
• Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System, an on-going NASA metereological experiment

[edit] See also

• Seris
• Series