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Dawn: A journey in space and time

Russell, C. T.; Jaumann, R.; Keller, H. U. +18 more

By successively orbiting both 4 Vesta and 1 Ceres the Dawn mission directly addresses the long-standing goals of understanding the origin and evolution of the solar system. Ceres and Vesta are two complementary terrestrial protoplanets (one apparently ;wet; and the other ;dry;), whose accretion was probably terminated by the formation of Jupiter. …