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Planet you've probably never heard of
cnn.com ^ | 8:56 PM ET, Fri February 20, 2015 | Amanda Barnett, CNN

Posted on 02/21/2015 5:39:50 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

(CNN)Way out beyond Mars, but before you get to Jupiter, is a planet.

You read that right. There's a planet between Mars and Jupiter.

You may not have heard of it, but it was discovered in 1801 -- 129 years before Pluto. It originally was called a planet, then later an asteroid and now it's called a dwarf plane

Its name is Ceres (pronounced like series) and you'll likely be hearing a lot more about it in the coming weeks.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: ceres; dawnspacecraft; dwarfplanet; dwarfplanets; nasa; planet; spaceexploration; xplanets
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Giuseppe Piazzi, who discovered Ceres on the first night of the 19th century, was a native of Sicily (although not living in Sicily when he made the discovery). Ceres (Demeter) was the patron goddess of ancient Sicily.


61 posted on 02/22/2015 1:57:53 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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I hope Giusseppi Piazzi used only Whole grains when he made his Pizza. On the Piazza.

Otherwise he would be making a Ceres mistake.


62 posted on 02/22/2015 3:30:05 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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Note: this topic is from 2/21/2015. Thanks Ernest.
 
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63 posted on 02/16/2016 7:51:09 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Dallas59
Knew about Ceres as far back as 8 years old.

Thank you. CNN people (and the rest of Big Media) assume that everybody is as stupid as they are.

64 posted on 02/16/2016 7:54:02 AM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: cripplecreek

Series?


65 posted on 02/16/2016 8:17:27 AM PST by brivette
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To: doug from upland

clever!


66 posted on 02/16/2016 8:32:42 AM PST by brivette
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To: left that other site

that’s pretty indecent of you..


67 posted on 02/16/2016 8:35:54 AM PST by brivette
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