Adopt-A-Star The colour of the traffic light above indicates the status of our Adopt-A-Star program. A green light indicates that we are ready to process Adopt-A-Star requests. A yellow light indicates that we expect to begin processing Adopt-A-Star requests within a few days. Finally, a red light indicates that we are not able to process any Adopt-A-Star requests at this time. Book of the Day Businesses that are subject to an increased risk of fraud require a special type of merchant account called a high risk merchant account. Space History January 1 On this day, back in 1801, Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the first asteroid. It was named Ceres, in honour of the Roman goddess of agriculture. Ceres has a diameter of about 950 km, which makes it the largest asteroid in the Asteroid Belt. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union adopted the term "dwarf planet" and since then Ceres has been classified as a dwarf planet. Big Sky News The Nanton Legion recently contributed $1000 to our 2010 Facility Enhancement Project. Did You Know? A light-year is a unit of distance, not time. It is simply the distance that light travels in one year. The speed of light is 299,792,458 metres per second and therefore in one year (365¼ days) light can traverse 9,460,730,472,580,800 metres. In other words, a light-year is equal to about 9.46 trillion kilometres.