NASA's Dawn mission is set for launch on September 27, 2007 with a launch window of 7:20AM to 7:49AM EDT. You can watch the launch of Dawn's Delta II rocket on NASA TV.The Dawn mission will launch an exploratory spacecraft to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter to investigate two vastly different 'protoplanets'...Ceres and Vesta. Ceres, named after the Roman goddess of agriculture,is the largest asteroid and the first to be discovered. Vesta, named after the Roman goddess of the hearth, is the only asteroid visible with the naked eye. For more information on these asteroids, their discovery and on Bode's Law go to NASA's Dawn Mission Background page
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