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Asteroid vs Cererian - What's the difference?

asteroid | cererian |

As nouns the difference between asteroid and cererian

is that asteroid is asteroid while cererian is .

As an adjective cererian is

.

asteroid

English

(wikipedia asteroid)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (astronomy) A naturally occurring solid object, which is smaller than a planet and is not a comet, that orbits a star
  • (astronomy) In the Solar system, such a body that orbits within the orbit of Jupiter
  • * {{quote-book, year=2007
    • , author= , editor=Hannu Karttunen et al. , title=Fundamental Astronomy , edition=5 , publisher= , page=131 , passage=The orbital planes of asteroids , minor bodies that circle the Sun mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, are often more tilted ...}}
  • (zoology) Any member of the taxonomic class Asteroidea; a starfish

    • Usage notes

    The term "asteroid" has never been precisely defined. It was coined for objects which looked like stars in a telescope but moved like planets. These were known from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and were later found co-orbiting with Jupiter (Trojan asteroids) and within the orbit of Mars. They were naturally distinguished from comets, which did not look at all starlike. Starting in the 1970s, small non-cometary bodies were found outside the orbit of Jupiter, and usage became divided as to whether to call these "asteroids" as well. Some astronomers restrict the term "asteroid" to rocky or rocky-icy bodies with orbits up to Jupiter. They may retain the term planetoid for all small bodies, and thus tend to use it for icy or rocky-icy bodies beyond Jupiter, or may use dedicated words such as centaurs, Kuiper belt objects, transneptunian objects, etc. for the latter. Other astronomers use "asteroid" for all non-cometary bodies smaller than a planet, even large ones such as Sedna and (occasionally) Pluto. However, the distinction between asteroid and comet is an artificial one; many outer "asteroids" would become comets if they ventured nearer the Sun. The official terminology since 2006 has been small Solar System body for any body that orbits the Sun directly and whose shape is not dominated by gravity.

    Derived terms

    () * asteroid belt * kuiperoid

    Related terms

    () * aster * asterisk * asterism

    See also

    * astroid * comet * planetoid

    External links

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    cererian

    English

    Alternative forms

    * cererian * Cererean * Ceresian * Cerean

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Of or relating to the Roman goddess Ceres
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1823 , author=William Booth , title=Flowers of Roman poesy , chapter=Nasidien , page=42 , passage=Sprinkled with salt and Cererean grain}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1878 , author=William Thomas Thornton , title=Word for word from Horace , chapter=Epode 16 , page=314 , passage=An untilled soil its yearly growth of grain Cererian yields}}
  • * {{quote-journal
    • , year=1986 , author=Sarah Iles Johnston , journal=The Journal of Indo-European studies , page=44 , volume=14 , passage=As a divinity of the earth, Mefitis shows in fact two aspects: cererian , she is goddess of plowing [...], and chthonian}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2004 , author=Sarah Iles Johnston , title=Religions of the ancient world , page=233 , passage=We find, for example, at Agnone a "Cererian " Hercules and at Rossano a "Mefitanian" Mamers (= Mars); presumably these two major Italic divinities, Hercules and Mamers, were the "guests" of Ceres and Mefitis}}
  • Of or relating to the dwarf planet–asteroid Ceres
  • * {{quote-journal
    • , year=2006 , date=August , author=Tom Buckner , title=Letters , journal=Discover Magazine , passage=Most of the ship's mass would be Cererian' water; Earth would supply the crew, the ship's skin, and the engines. Ceres' surface gravity is about 1/36 Earth's gravity, and the asteroid is just close enough to the sun for it to power the machinery. ' Cererian water may unlock the solar system.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2012 , author=A.S. Rivkin et al. , editors=Christopher Russell & Carol Raymond, , title=The Dawn Mission to Minor Planets 4 Vesta and 1 Ceres , chapter=The Surface Composition of Ceres , page=109 , passage=Brucite itself has not been observed in meteorites in the amounts implied by Ceres' spectrum, which seems to minimize the likelihood that any Cererean material has been found by meteorite hunters.}}
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date=2012-09-21 , author= , title=Dawn Spacecraft Finds Traces of Water on Vesta , site=Sci-Tech Daily , passage=Vesta is the brightest asteroid visible from Earth and its maximum distance from the Sun is slightly farther than the minimum distance of Ceres from the Sun (2.56AU). However its orbit lies entirely within the Cererian orbit.}}

    Related terms

    * cereal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An inhabitant of the asteroid Ceres
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