Saturday, March 7, 2015 | 8:23 a.m.
A NASA spacecraft made history today first entering the orbit of a dwarf planet , specifically in the orbit of Ceres, the smallest of the dwarf planets of the Solar System and the asteroid belt between Mars and larger Jupiter.
The dwarf planet pulled her ship, dubbed probe Dawn (“Dawn”) , at 07.39, when the eastern United States (12.39 GMT ), when the spacecraft was at a distance of 61,000 kilometers of dwarf planet, the US space agency (NASA) said in a statement.
The Dawn probe, launched into space in 2007, will spend over the next 16 months to submit images of Ceres scientists so they can study its surface and determine whether under it a layer of water ice lurks, as suspected NASA.
the space agency technicians closely followed Dawn’s journey from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena (California, USA.).
At 08.36 hours on the east coast of US .S. (13.36 GMT), Dawn sent a signal to the lab space agency to warn that was fine and had entered the orbit of the dwarf planet as planned.
Ceres was discovered in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi and the first was considered a comet, then a planet and an asteroid, until finally, in 2006, it was categorized as a dwarf planet.
The mission director, Marc Rayman, said that after a journey of 4,900 million kilometers and seven and a half mission, Dawn you may now call “home” to dwarf planet.
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