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CERES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The largest asteroid and the first discovered
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
asteroid (any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter))
Sense 2
Meaning:
(Roman mythology) goddess of agriculture; counterpart of Greek Demeter
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
Roman deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Romans)
Domain category:
Roman mythology (the mythology of the ancient Romans)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb cere
Context examples:
Separation of ice and rock would lead to differences in the chemical composition of Ceres' surface and interior.
(Where is the Ice on Ceres?, NASA)
Oxo lies near the 0 degree meridian that defines the edge of many Ceres maps, making this small feature easy to overlook.
(New Ceres Images Show Bright Craters, NASA)
Additionally, there are more craters in the northern hemisphere of Ceres than the south, where the large Urvara and Yalode craters are the dominant features.
(Ceres' Geological Activity, Ice Revealed in New Research, NASA)
Concentrations of iron, hydrogen, potassium and carbon provide further evidence that the top layer of material covering Ceres was altered by liquid water in Ceres' interior.
(Where is the Ice on Ceres?, NASA)
Haulani perfectly displays the properties for a fresh impact into the surface of Ceres.
(New Ceres Images Show Bright Craters, NASA)
A temporary atmosphere would be consistent with the water vapor the Herschel Space Observatory detected at Ceres in 2012-2013.
(Ceres' Geological Activity, Ice Revealed in New Research, NASA)
Scientists theorize that the decay of radioactive elements within Ceres produced heat that drove this alteration process, separating Ceres into a rocky interior and icy outer shell.
(Where is the Ice on Ceres?, NASA)
The color blue in such views has been associated with young features on Ceres.
(New Ceres Images Show Bright Craters, NASA)
Dawn's gamma ray and neutron (GRaND) detector observed evidence that Ceres had accelerated electrons from the solar wind to very high energies over a period of about six days.
(Ceres' Geological Activity, Ice Revealed in New Research, NASA)
On Ceres, hydrogen is likely to be in the form of frozen water.
(Where is the Ice on Ceres?, NASA)
