NASA Dawn to Ceres

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jmorgan

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Tuesday 20th January 2015
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Finished with Vesta (unfortunate name in the UK). Ion drive as well.

http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov

March arrival. And it looks like it has an evil eye....

http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/feature_stories/Dawn_deli...

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/

Eric Mc

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265 months

Tuesday 20th January 2015
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First spherical asteroid visited.

jmorgan

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Tuesday 20th January 2015
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Yep, was going to say round but that is a bit 2D. Think I popped my name onto the list for that mission as well, loads of names sent on a microchip.

kowalski655

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143 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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Thateveil eye explained
http://xkcd.com/1476/

jmorgan

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Wednesday 21st January 2015
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kowalski655 said:
Thateveil eye explained
http://xkcd.com/1476/
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