Ceres
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Ceres commonly refers to:
- Ceres (dwarf planet), closest of the five identified dwarf planets, originally classified as a planet, and later as the largest asteroid
- Ceres (mythology), the Roman goddess of agriculture
Ceres may also refer to:
Places
United States
- Ceres, California
- Ceres Flat, California
- Ceres, Georgia
- Ceres, Iowa. a community in Clayton County
- Ceres, New York
- Ceres, Oklahoma, a community in Noble County
- Ceres, Virginia
- Ceres, Washington, a community in Lewis County
- Ceres, West Virginia
- Ceres Township, McKean County, Pennsylvania
Other countries
- Ceres, Santa Fe, Argentina
- Ceres, Victoria, Australia
- Ceres, Goiás, Brazil
- Ceres, Piedmont, Italy
- Ceres, Fife, Scotland
- Ceres, Western Cape, South Africa
- Ceres Nunataks, Antarctica
- Ceres Microregion, in north-central Goiás state, Brazil
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)
- Centre for Research on Energy Security (CeRES), an Indian research center on geopolitics and energy
- Ceres Fruit Juices, the South African juice company
- Ceres Liner, a bus company in the Philippines
- Ceres Power, a UK company developing small-scale solid oxide fuel cells
- Ceres, Inc., a US energy crop seeds developer
In fiction
- Ceres, Celestial Legend (Ayashi no Ceres), an anime/manga work
- Sailor Ceres, a.k.a. CereCere, a character in Sailor Moon
- Seras Victoria, a character in the anime/manga Hellsing, of which an alternate romanization is "Ceres"
- Ceres Space Colony, from the video game Super Metroid
- Geoffrey Fourmyle of Ceres, one of the identities of Gulliver Foyle, in the Alfred Bester book The Stars My Destination
- The Ceres Ocean, in the alternate Earth of the Ace Combat video game series
Acronyms
- California Environmental Resources Evaluation System
- Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies at Georgetown University
- 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 ongoing NASA meteorological experiment.
- Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies
- Centre d'études, de recherches et d'éducation socialiste (French: Center of Socialist Studies, Research and Education), a left-wing political organization founded by Jean-Pierre Chevènement
- CERES (satellite), a French spy satellite program
Other uses
- Ceres (workstation), a computer workstation built at ETH Zürich
- Ceres series (disambiguation), several series of postage stamps representing the goddess Ceres
- HMS Ceres, three ships of the British Royal Navy
- Ceres, a West Cornwall Railway steam locomotive
- Toyota Corolla Ceres a compact, 4-door hardtop sold in Japan
- Céres, a French Minerve class submarine
- Ceres (2005), an orchestral work by Mark-Anthony Turnage
- CAC Ceres, a crop-duster aircraft manufactured in Australia
- Ceres Connection, a cooperative program between MIT's Lincoln Laboratory and the Society for Science and the Public dedicated for promoting science education
- Ceres Futebol Clube, a Brazilian football team from the city of Rio de Janeiro
- Ceres F.C., a Philippine football team
- Ceres Koekedouw Dam, dam on the Koekedouw River, near Ceres, Western Cape, South Africa
- Ceres School, a historic school building located at Ceres in Allegany County, New York.
- Ceres Storm, a 2000 science fiction novel by American author David Herter
See also
- Cereal
- Ceres in fiction
- Colonization of Ceres
- Keres (mythology), death spirits unconnected with Ceres
- Series (disambiguation)
- Seris