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The Saturday launch would have been a good one, mid-afternoon, not too far from Daytona Beach where the Pepsi 400 is also scheduled to run, barring the weather.

Technicians work on NASA's Dawn spacecraft at the Astrotech processing facility in Titusville, Fla., Wednesday, June 20, 2007. NASA is set to launch the spacecraft that will journey to the asteroid belt that lies between Mars and Jupiter, a mission that involves a rendezvous with two of the solar system's largest asteroids. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

1 posted on 07/06/2007 7:59:07 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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Dawn mission page: http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov

University of California, Los Angeles: http://www.ucla.edu


2 posted on 07/06/2007 7:59:20 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... For want of a few good men, a once great nation was lost.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Hey, this is science! Isn’t it supposed to be moved to General Chat?


4 posted on 07/06/2007 8:55:05 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Pray for the deliberately ignorant.)
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Graphic describes NASA Dawn mission to asteroids Vesta and Ceres in orbit beyond Mars; 2c x 3 1/2 inches; 96.3 mm x 88.9 mm


5 posted on 07/06/2007 10:08:13 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... For want of a few good men, a once great nation was lost.)
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