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NASA's Dawn spacecraft may or may not have gone into orbit around the large asteroid Vesta yesterday. The spacecraft is still firing its thrusters for the rendezvous - it must wait until the burn is over before turning its antenna back towards earth to communicate. Dawn is scheduled to transmit its first data from Vesta orbit around midnight tonight.

 

If it misses orbital insertion, it has enough fuel for at least one more try.

 

Dawn will orbit Vesta for a year, then move on to Ceres, the solar systems largest asteroid for a second orbital survey.

 

Good stuff.

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