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Ceres is a dwarf planet, but there is some confusion about whether it is also an asteroid. A NASA webpage states that Vesta, the belt's second-largest object, is the largest asteroid. The IAU has been equivocal on the subject, though its Minor Planet Center, the organisation charged with cataloguing such objects, notes that dwarf planets may have dual designations,
and the joint IAU/USGS/NASA Gazetteer categorizes Ceres as both asteroid and a dwarf planet.
^ “Science: One Mission, Two Remarkable Destinations”, in NASA, 2020 July 14 (last accessed), archived from the original on 17 July 2020: “Asteroids range in size from Vesta – the largest at about 329 miles (530 km) in diameter ...”
^ Lang, Kenneth (2011) The Cambridge Guide to the Solar System, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on 26 July 2020, pages 372, 442
^ “Question and answers 2”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), IAU, 2008 January 31 (last accessed), archived from the original on 30 January 2016: “Ceres is (or now we can say it was) the largest asteroid ... There are many other asteroids that can come close to the orbital path of Ceres.”
^ Spahr, T. B. (2006 September 7) “MPEC 2006-R19: EDITORIAL NOTICE”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Minor Planet Center, archived from the original on 10 October 2008: “the numbering of "dwarf planets" does not preclude their having dual designations in possible separate catalogues of such bodies.”
2017 February 17, kar, “Na trpasličí planetě Ceres jsme našli organický materiál, oznámila NASA”, in ČT24, Česká televize, archived from the original on 19 February 2018:
Mise Dawn, v jejímž rámci NASA zkoumá trpasličí planetu Ceres, našla důkazy o organickém materiálu.
The Dawn mission, in which NASA explores the dwarf planet Ceres, found evidence of organic material.
2017 October 24, Petr Kubala, “Sonda Dawn zůstane věrná Cereře”, in VTM, archived from the original on 2017-11-14:
Dawn bude Cereru zkoumat i v době, kdy bude nejblíže od Slunce.
Dawn is going to explore Ceres also during the time when it is nearest from the Sun.
Usage notes
Both the name of the goddess and the celestial body are traditionally feminine, but in modern usage the latter one is sometimes also treated as indeclinable or inflected as masculine inanimate.
Declension
when feminine:
Declension of Ceres (sg-only hard feminine irreg-stem)
Tum Cererem corruptam undīs Cereāliaque arma expediunt fessī rērum; frūgēsque receptās et torrēre parant flammīs et frangere saxō.
Then, weary of circumstances, they brought out Ceres, soaked with seawater, and the utensils of Ceres; and they prepared both to roast with flames and to grind with stone that grain had been recovered.
Declension
Very rarely found in the plural (cf. sacerdōs Cerērum found in one inscription, referring to Proserpina).
“Ceres”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Ceres”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Ceres in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Ceres in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“Ceres”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“Ceres”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray