Asteroids, Ion Propulsion, and NASA’s Dawn Mission to Vesta and Ceres
(Room Encanto A)
07 Jul 19
9:00 AM
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10:15 AM
Asteroids are the primitive remains from the formation of the solar system, the building blocks of the planets, but for years they were neglected by NASA planetary missions in favor of bigger objects such as Mars and the outer gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. NASA’s Dawn mission was the first orbiter sent to Main Belt asteroids, (four) Vesta and (one) Ceres. What did Dawn discover? Join Professor David Williams of ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration and a member of the Dawn Science Team for a discussion of the results of the Dawn mission and what was learned about the two most massive objects between Mars and Jupiter. For more information, email David.Williams@asu.edu.