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Herschel Discovers Water Vapor Spewing from Ceres
With the Dawn spacecraft now heading towards the dwarf planet/asteroid Ceres, the mission has suddenly gotten even more intriguing. The…
Ready For Your Closeup, Ceres? NASA Spacecraft Gets Closer To Dwarf Planet
The next few years will be banner ones for learning about dwarf planets. While the high-profile New Horizons spacecraft zooms…
On to Ceres: Dawn Spacecraft Ready to Say Farewell to Asteroid Vesta
The feat has never been accomplished before and next week’s departure for the Dawn spacecraft from Vesta will be monumental.…
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Holiday Greetings from an Alien Snowman on Vesta
[/caption] Celebrate the winter holiday season in the company of an ‘Alien Snowman’ on the asteroid Vesta, someone we didn’t…
Amazing New View of the Mt. Everest of Vesta
[/caption] NASA has just released an amazing new view of the mysterious south pole of Vesta that offers an oblique…
Celestial Body
[/caption]The term celestial body is as expansive as the entire universe, both known and unknown. By definition a celestial body…
Minor Planets
[/caption] Minor planet is a term used to refer to a celestial object - that is not a planet or…