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Showing posts with label dwarf planet Ceres. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dwarf planet Ceres. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Dawn spacecraft leaves asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres flies


The Dawn spacecraft is on its method to become the first spacecraft that orbited two remote celestial bodies of the solar system and studied. Dawn is on 5 September after over one year orbit around Vesta and leave this in 2.5 years to fly to the dwarf planet Ceres. Even these celestial bodies should examine Dawn at close range. The probe is expected in February 2015 in Ceres. Dawn launched on 27 September 2007. The end of the mission is scheduled for July 2015.