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1108 Demeter is an asteroid named after the Greek goddess of fertility, Demeter. It is the 1108th asteroid named, and is a main-belt asteroid. Discovered on 31 May1929 by K. Reinmuth at Heidelberg, it is 26 km in diameter. An asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. ... Dêmêtêr (or Demetra) (DEH-MEH-ter) (mother-goddess or perhaps distribution-mother) is the Greek goddess of agriculture, the pure nourisher of youth and the green earth, the health-giving cycle of life and death, and preserver of marriage and the sacred law. ... May 31 is the 151st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (152nd in leap years), with 214 days remaining, as the last day of May. ... 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (April 4, 1892 – May 6, 1979) was a German astronomer. ... Map of Germany showing Heidelberg Heidelberg (halfway between Stuttgart and Frankfurt) is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... KM, Km, or km may stand for: Khmer language (ISO 639 alpha-2, km) Kilometre Kinemantra Meditation Knowledge management KM programming language Comoros (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code) the Michaelis-Menten constant Km, see Michaelis-Menten kinetics Kamenz (district), Germany (license plate indication) Messenia, Greece (license plate indication...
Proserpine by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1874) (Tate Gallery, London In Greek mythology, Persephone (Greek ΠεÏσεφόνη, PersephónÄ“) was the Queen of the Underworld, the Kore or young maiden, and the daughter of Demeter— and Zeus, in the Olympian version.
The mothers of Persephone, Demeter, and of Proserpina, Ceres, have been used as names of asteroids: 1108Demeter and Ceres respectively.
Ceres (Demeter), allegory of August: detail of a fresco by Cosimo Tura, Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara, 1469-70 Demeter was a god of the ancient greeks.
DEMETER is a NewHolland 2550 Windrower retrofitted for computer control of the speed and steering functions.
DEMETER is equipped with a CCD camera and on-board computer for visually detecting the line between cut and uncut crop and steering the machine to cut a crop row.
DEMETER is capable of detecting the end of the row and turning to cut the next row.
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