NASA Satellite Snaps First Image of Target Asteroid
coondoggie writes “NASA today said that its Dawn spacecraft snapped the first image of the giant asteroid Vesta it hopes to rendezvous with in July. The 530 kilometers (330 miles) diameter asteroid...
View ArticleNASAsatellite Snaps First Image of Target Asteroid
coondoggie writes “NASA today said that its Dawn spacecraft snapped the first image of the giant asteroid Vesta it hopes to rendezvous with in July. The 530 kilometers (330 miles) diameter asteroid...
View ArticleAsteroid Lutetia Revealed As a Protoplanet
astroengine writes “Asteroids visited by spacecraft have all turned out to be piles of rubble or chunks broken off of larger bodies, but that’s not the case with 21 Lutetia, a 75-mile long, 47-mile...
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