Dawn to go into orbit around Vesta next month
Submit on Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 22:57
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is on track to begin the first extended visit to a large asteroid. The mission expects to go into orbit around Vesta on 16 July and begin gathering science data in early August. Vesta resides in the main asteroid belt and is thought to be the source of a large number of meteorites that fall to Earth.
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