Ceres has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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| 1. | The mysterious bright spots on Ceres, which have captivated both the Dawn science team and the public, reveal evidence of Ceres’ past subsurface ocean, and indicate that, far from being a dead world, Ceres is surprisingly active. | |
| 2. | Since Dawn arrived in orbit at Ceres in March 2015, scientists have located more than 300 bright areas on Ceres. | |
| 3. | When Ceres was first discovered it was called a comet. Within a year it was called a planet. Within one more year it was called an asteroid. Since 2006, it has been called a dwarf planet. | |
| 4. | Ceres was discovered on January 1, 1801 by Italian Giuseppe Piazzi. He discovered it while searching for a star. | |
| 5. | Italian Giuseppe Piazzi discovered Ceres on January 1, 1801 while he was searching for a star. He first believed that he had discovered a comet, but he was not confident in his belief. | |
| 6. | It takes approximately 4.6 Earth years for Ceres to make one revolution around the Sun. | |
| 7. | Ceres is located 415 million kilometers from the Sun and revolves around the Sun in an orbit between Mars and Jupiter. | |
| 8. | Because Ceres is spherical, it is unlike the majority of the members of the asteroid belt. | |
| 9. | It is now believed that Ceres formed 4.6 billion years ago when the solar system was forming. | |
| 10. | Ceres contains one-third of the mass found in the asteroid belt. |