Dawn Probe Orbiting Asteroid Vesta

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is orbiting the asteroid Vesta after a successful gravity capture July 16, becoming the first probe to orbit a main-belt asteroid. While data from the probe confirm that it is in orbit around the large object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, the precise time of...

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