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#OTD in 2011, NASA's Dawn spacecraft entered Vesta's orbit, studying the asteroid's geology and composition. Dawn revealed that Vesta is actually a protoplanet surviving from the earliest days of the solar system!

Learn more about the Dawn mission: https://go.nasa.gov/3NSTKrM
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Overview | Dawn – NASA Solar System Exploration

Dawn was the first mission to orbit a dwarf planet and the first two orbit two bodies in the main asteroid belt.
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Our children deserve to learn about this in school. Instead they’re taught as little as possible so they can serve the Gods of Capitalism.
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