Ceres

Ceres commonly refers to:

• Ceres (dwarf planet), smallest 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 refer to:

Places

United States

• Ceres, California
• Ceres Flat, California
• Ceres, Georgia
• Ceres, Iowa
• Ceres, New York
• Ceres, Oklahoma
• Ceres, Virginia
• Ceres, Washington
• 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 geopolitic 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 fuel cell CHP systems
• Ceres, Inc., a US energy crop seeds developer

In fiction

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

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

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 meteorological experiment, part of NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) program

See also

• Cereal
• Ceres in fiction
• Colonization of Ceres, has been proposed as one possible target for human colonization in the inner Solar System
• Keres (mythology), death spirits unconnected with Ceres
• Series (disambiguation)
• Seris