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On this day in 2007 – September 27th – NASA's Dawn spacecraft was launched.

Dawn orbited and studied the asteroid Vesta, and then went on to study dwarf planet Ceres. The mission has ended, but the spacecraft remains in orbit around Ceres.


Mona Evans
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