The Register (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
'Bizarre' trans-Neptunian object honours Hawaiian goddess The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has decreed that the object formerly known as 2003 EL61 will henceforth be addressed as "Haumea", and joins Ceres, Eris, Makemake and Pluto in the solar system's league of dwarf planets.…
girlie jones (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
is the name of the first novella to be published by Twelfth Planet Press. Written by Dirk Flinthart and set within the New Ceres shared world, the blurb on the back of the book says this: The New Ceres planetary charter forbids the use of all modern technology. Law confines the people to the ways of 18th Century Earth. But beneath the surface, rebellion and revolution simmer constantly. Proctor George...
Cosmic Log (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
NASA / ESA / SwRI / U. of Md. The way some scientists see it, the asteroid Ceres (on the left) would be a planet while the asteroid Vesta (on the right) would not. The difference? Roundness. Does Pluto deserve a place among our solar system's main planets, or were astronomers right to demote it to second-class status ? Two years ago, poor Pluto's plight touched off the dispute over the how you define...
girlie jones (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Twelfth Planet Press is delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of Rising Angel by Dirk Flinthart. This novella will kickoff our novella series as well as offer a foretaste of our upcoming New Ceres Anthology . George Gordon, mad, bad and dangerous to know , is back and hot on the trail of a Fallen Angel in the Sunset Isles of New Ceres. Teeming with samurai and ninjas, Flinthart plays up...
girlie jones (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
This is a shout out to artists - so often there's a submissions call for an anthology or a magazine, but we rarely see them for the artists! New Ceres: The Anthology, the new collection underway from Twelfth Planet Press, is seeking cover artwork and possible internal artwork. Pay rates have yet to be determined but will be respectable. Originally conceived as a shared world webzine, editors Alisa...
girlie jones (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Twelfth Planet Press is delighted to announce the forthcoming publication New Ceres: the Anthology . During the war that left Earth uninhabitable, refugees from the doomed planet fled to the outer colonies. Many of them found their way to New Ceres, a planet that embraced the Age of Enlightenment almost two hundred years ago, and has not yet let go. The water may be green and spaceships may be landing...
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 03/01/2008
It was bad enough when, in August 2006, members of the International Astronomical Union decided to remove Pluto from the pantheon of major planets. Worse, Ceres and Eris got tossed into the fray...
Infant Days Sleepless Nights (Free subscription) | 02/27/2008
Where the hell have I been? When did we go to 11 planets in our solar system? I was cool with the demotion of Pluto. That little ellipse skipping, line cutting bitch had it coming. That gave us 8 planets and 1 dwarf. When did we promote Ceres and Eris? And while were talking about it, who gets to decide what solar orbiting body gets to make the leap? What are the required specifications? This is some...
Randy McDonald's Livejournal (Free subscription) | 01/18/2008
In the past, I've been quite enthusiastic about the asteroid Ceres and rather pleased about the redefinition of Ceres as a dwarf planet. (I've a soft spot for space objects which I feel have been unfairly neglected simply because of nomenclature.) The continuing success of the Dawn space probe, as it travels to first the asteroid Vesta then the dwarf planet Ceres over the next eight years using its...
TheSpoof.com - Spoof News (Free subscription) | 01/17/2008
(Geneva) The International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced today fading daytime star Rosie O'Donnell is so fat now she has been classified as a dwarf planet. Ms. O'Donnell now shares the same category as Pluto, Ceres and Eris.
Stranger Fruit (Free subscription) | 01/01/2008
Events 1801 - Dwarf planet Ceres is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi . 1925 - Edwin Hubble announces the discovery of galaxies outside the Milky Way . 1983 - The ARPANET officially changes to using the Internet Protocol , creating the Internet . 1985 - The Internet's Domain Name System is created. 1989 - The Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer comes into force. Read the rest...
Astrological Musings: Astrology tha (Free subscription) | 12/14/2007
When Ceres was elevated to planet status many of us felt that this was a significant message for human evolution. Every time a planet (and Chiron) has been discovered WITHIN our solar system it has opened new doors. Ceres, remember, is the goddess who starved the Earth people in her grief over the loss of her daughter. She is not a goddess to be trifled with! Still, she presides over the sustenance...
Colony Worlds (Free subscription) | 10/10/2007
Some people say Mars is our next home . Other people say Mars is utterly worthless . Regardless of the viewpoint, humans will probably end up visiting the place for "eternal glory," if not for scientific reasons. Whether or not our species actually settles the red planet is highly questionable. Unlike Earth's Moon , Mars lacks major resources of any kind that would make colonizing the planet worthwhile....
Physorg (Free subscription) | 10/10/2007
NASA's Dawn spacecraft successfully completed the first test of its ion propulsion system over the weekend. The system is vital to the success of Dawn's 8-year, 1.6 billion-kilometer (3-billion-mile) journey to asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/10/2007
NASA's Dawn spacecraft successfully completed the first test of its ion propulsion system over the weekend. The system is vital to the success of Dawn's 8-year, 1.6 billion-kilometer (3-billion-mile) journey to asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres.
