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On to Ceres: Dawn Spacecraft Ready to Say Farewell to Asteroid Vesta

August 31, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter The feat has never been accomplished before and next week’s departure for the Dawn spacecraft from Vesta will be monumental. Dawn is on track to become the first probe to orbit and study two distant solar system destinations. The spacecraft is [...]

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Holiday Greetings from an Alien Snowman on Vesta

December 22, 2011

Celebrate the winter holiday season in the company of an ‘Alien Snowman’ on the asteroid Vesta, someone we didn’t even have a clue about until six months ago. Vesta and the Snowman have been transformed into the beautiful banner above – sent to me courtesy of the Dawn mission team to share with the readers [...]

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Amazing New View of the Mt. Everest of Vesta

October 11, 2011

NASA has just released an amazing new view of the mysterious south pole of Vesta that offers an oblique perspective view of the central mountain peak which is three times as high as Mt Everest. This topographic view , shown above,is completely unique to viewers from Earth and is provided courtesy of NASA’s exotic Dawn [...]

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What Is A Dwarf Planet

September 2, 2010

There are many criteria that go into explaining what is a dwarf planet. The International Astronomical Union(IAU) defines a dwarf planet like this ‘… is a celestial body orbiting a star that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity but has not cleared its neighboring region of planetismals and is not a [...]

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Smallest Dwarf Planet

September 2, 2010

Ceres, also known as 1 Ceres, is the smallest dwarf planet by both equatorial diameter and mass. It is located in the main asteroid belt and is believed to have no atmosphere at all. It the largest and most massive asteroid in the belt between Mars and Jupiter(main belt). It is or 975×909 km and [...]

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