Abstract Bright spots on the surface of Ceres exhibit a mineralogy resulting from aqueous processes that hint at past elements an world. Reports hydrated sodium chloride (hydrohalite) Occator crater suggested salts may result deep brines reached recently or currently, but spectral characteristics alkali halides make their identification difficult. However, anhydrous (halite) develops readily id...

Organic matter directly observed at the surface of an inner planetary body is quite infrequent due to usual low abundance such and limitation infrared technique. Fortuitously, Dawn mission has revealed, thanks Visible InfraRed mapping spectrometer (VIR), large areas rich in organic Ceres, near Ernutet crater. The origin its association with minerals, as indicated by altitude VIR data, remains u...

We present a coarse-grain protein model PaLaCe (Pasi-Lavery-Ceres) that has been developed principally to allow fast computational studies of protein mechanics and to clarify the links between mechanics and function. PaLaCe uses a two-tier protein representation with one to three pseudoatoms representing each amino acid for the main nonbonded interactions, combined with atomic-scale peptide gro...

Friday " I don't see what's so funny? " " Really, " Dr. Egerton continued to force a thin dry chuckle. " Because I think it's pretty funny. Don't you feel funny even saying it? " " No I do not feel funny saying it, " XienCheng spat back with disdain. " Because it isn't funny. It isn't funny at all. Do you have any idea how much money the Ceres mine lost last week? " " I have no idea, " Egerton ...