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[Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, UCLA, MPS, DLR, IDA]

1 posted on 11/28/2011 8:43:56 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
During 2012, Dawn is scheduled to blast away from Vesta and begin a long journey to the only asteroid belt object known to be larger: Ceres.

Marooned off Vesta?

And then next it's Huge Ceres?

3 posted on 11/28/2011 8:46:02 PM PST by null and void (This is day 1042 of America's ObamaVacation from reality.)
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To: SunkenCiv

is there enough gravity for a landlside?


4 posted on 11/28/2011 8:49:40 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: SunkenCiv

Where’s Bruce Willis when we need him??


6 posted on 11/28/2011 8:51:22 PM PST by Noob1999 (Loose Lips, Sink Ships)
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To: SunkenCiv

Probably large cavities in Vesta and one fell in.


9 posted on 11/28/2011 9:02:22 PM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (REPEAL WASHINGTON! -- Islam Delenda Est! -- I Want Constantinople Back. -- Rumble thee forth.)
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To: SunkenCiv

2.2% the gravity of earth on the surface. Had to look it up.

A bullet shot 580 mph will go into orbit. A little faster and it is interstellar.


10 posted on 11/28/2011 9:06:14 PM PST by cicero2k
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To: SunkenCiv

Unmanned space exploration is doing great.


12 posted on 11/29/2011 12:45:56 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: SunkenCiv

That’s fracking awesome...thanks.


13 posted on 11/29/2011 12:56:22 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (....The days are long, but the years are short.....)
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To: SunkenCiv

Didn’t Fleetwood Mac write a Ceres Song about that?


14 posted on 11/29/2011 4:33:48 AM PST by left that other site (Psalm 122:6)
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