Oddity of the Week: Celebrating the Cereal Goddess
Created | Updated Mar 22, 2015
Eat your Wheaties – you may grow up to be an astronaut.
Celebrating the Cereal Goddess and Her Dwarf Planet
My, she's big. This 25-ton effigy of Ceres is one of SIX gigantic granite statues in the front façade of Union Station in Washington, DC. Carol M Highsmith took this photo in 2007.
Yes, friends, Ceres is where we get the word 'cereal' from. After all, she's the mother of all grains and such. And it's not nice to fool her.
Ceres is also the name of a dwarf planet. You may be reading about it in the news lately. That's because NASA have received the first-ever communication from there. That's pretty exciting news: humanity has now reached out and touched the Asteroid Belt. We hope for many exciting observations across the millions of miles.
From statuary to mythology to space exploration: very cool, all in one photograph.
