Take a dawn journey to the asteroid belt


July 25, 2011

Estes Park Trail Gazette

McREL Senior Director John Ristvey will bring the journey of NASA’s Dawn spacecraft to life for visitors to the Estes Park Memorial Observatory in Estes Park, Colorado, on July 28. The talk, which is free, open to the public, and held in conjunction with the monthly meeting of the Estes Valley Astronomical Society, will focus on the super-fast ion engine propelling Dawn and how the mission will contribute to our understanding of the solar system. After four years of traveling through the solar system, Dawn has recently reached its destination of the asteroid Vesta, which it will explore until 2012.  

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