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- Title
Summer skies: Planets, an eclipse, and shooting stars.
- Authors
Riddle, Bob
- Abstract
The article provides information related to the discovery of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the U.S. NASA has encouraged individuals to use binoculars in viewing asteroid Vesta to track its motions among the stars. Mercury was one of the visible planets during summer and its maximum separation from the sun would be viewed several weeks in June. NASA has launched its discovery mission Dawn to characterize the conditions and processes of earliest epoch of the solar system through investigating the dwarf planet Ceres and asteroid Vesta.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SOLAR system; OPTICAL instruments; ASTEROIDS; VESTA (Asteroid); MERCURY (Planet); CERES (Dwarf planet); INNER planets; UNITED States. National Aeronautics &; Space Administration
- Publication
Science Scope, 2007, Vol 30, Issue 9, p62
- ISSN
0887-2376
- Publication type
Article