NEWS & EVENTS

The Dawn Mission's Deputy Principal Investigator Dr. Carol Raymond is the featured speaker at this free public lecture sponsored by the Keck Institute for Space Studies and The Planetary Society.

The Dawn spacecraft reached Vesta, the second most massive asteroid in the main belt, in July of 2011, and has since returned a wealth of remarkable scientific findings. These have included the confirmation of Vesta as the parent body of a common class of meteorites (the Howardite-Eucrite-Diogenites), evidence for a substantial iron core, an impact record consistent with recent dynamical models driven by giant planet migration, and intriguing brightness and compositional variations.