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UCLA's Christopher Russell leads NASA's Dawn Mission, set for July 7 launch

06-26-2007 · EurekAlert!

Christopher Russell, UCLA professor of geophysics and space physics, is principal investigator on NASA's Dawn mission to the doughnut-shaped asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Dawn is scheduled to launch July 7 from Cape Canaveral. Dawn will conduct a detailed study of the structure and composition of two of the first bodies formed in our solar system: the "dwarf planet" Ceres and the massive asteroid Vesta.

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