Ceres

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Ceres commonly refers to:

• Ceres (dwarf planet), closest of the five identified dwarf planets, the only asteroid that is a dwarf planet
• Ceres (mythology), the Roman goddess of agriculture

Ceres may also refer to:

Places

Brazil

• Ceres, Goiás, Brazil
• Ceres Microregion, in north-central Goiás state, Brazil

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, Piedmont, Italy
• Ceres, Fife, Scotland
• Ceres, Western Cape, South Africa
• Ceres Nunataks, Antarctica
• Ceres Koekedouw Dam, dam on the Koekedouw River, near Ceres, Western Cape, South Africa

Acronyms

• Cologne Center for Ethics, Rights, Economics, and Social Sciences of Health, an interdepartmental institution created by the Rector and five of the six Faculties of Cologne University
• CERES, a planned French spy satellite program
• California Environmental Resources Evaluation System
• Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies at Georgetown University
• Centre for Research on Energy Security (CeRES), an Indian research center on geopolitics and energy
• 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

Aircraft, transport, and vessels

• CAC Ceres, a crop-duster aircraft manufactured in Australia
• Ceres, a West Cornwall Railway steam locomotive
• HMS Ceres, three ships and three shore establishments of the British Royal Navy
• Toyota Corolla Ceres a compact, 4-door hardtop sold in Japan
• Céres, a French Minerve class submarine

Arts, entertainment, and media

Anime and manga

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

Fictional entities

• 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
• 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"

Literature

• Ceres Storm (2000), a science fiction novel by American author David Herter

Music

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

Brands and enterprises

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

Education

• Ceres Connection, a cooperative program between MIT's Lincoln Laboratory and the Society for Science and the Public dedicated for promoting science education
• Ceres School, an historic school building located at Ceres in Allegany County, New York

Sport

• Ceres–Negros F.C., a Philippine football team
• Ceres Futebol Clube, a Brazilian football team from the city of Rio de Janeiro

Other uses

• Ceres (workstation), a computer workstation built at ETH Zürich
• Ceres series (disambiguation), several series of postage stamps representing the goddess Ceres
• Plural of cere

See also

• Cereal
• Ceres in fiction
• Colonization of Ceres
• Keres (mythology), death spirits unconnected with Ceres
• Series (disambiguation)
• Seris