Sunday, June 26, 2011

NASA Readies for July Encounter With Massive Asteroid Vesta

NASA Readies for July Encounter With Massive Asteroid Vesta - FoxNews.com: "A NASA spacecraft is right on target for its year-long orbital encounter with the huge asteroid Vesta, which is set to begin next month.

NASA's Dawn probe is now just 96,000 miles (155,000 kilometers) from Vesta, the second-largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, NASA officials announced today (June 23). The spacecraft should enter into orbit around the 330-mile-wide (530 km) space rock on July 16."

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