Dawn at Vesta: Testing the Protoplanetary Paradigm

T. Russell, C.; A. Raymond, C.; Coradini, A.; Y. McSween, H.; T. Zuber, M.; Nathues, A.; C. De Sanctis, M.; Jaumann, R.; S. Konopliv, A.; Preusker, F.; W. Asmar, S.; S. Park, R.; Gaskell, R.; U. Keller, H.; Mottola, S.; Roatsch, T.; E. C. Scully, J.; E. Smith, D.; Tricarico, P.; J. Toplis, M.; R. Christensen, U.; C. Feldman, W.; J. Lawrence, D.; J. McCoy, T.; H. Prettyman, T.; C. Reedy, R.; E. Sykes, M.; N. Titus, T.

doi:10.1126/science.1219381

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Dawn at Vesta: Testing the Protoplanetary Paradigm

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Authors:

C. T. Russell

C. A. Raymond

A. Coradini

Abstract

A New Dawn Since 17 July 2011, NASA's spacecraft Dawn has been orbiting the asteroid Vesta—the second most massive and the third largest asteroid in the solar system (see the cover). Russell et al. (p. 684 ) use Dawn's observations to confirm that Vesta is a small differentiated planetary body with ...

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