After moons, planets, asteroids and comets humanity has reached a new celestial body. First run a probe in orbit around a known dwarf planet. The unmanned US scout Dawn Friday arrived at Ceres, a large rock that is in orbit around the sun
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Between Mars Jupiter and run a lot of large and small boulders. Ceres is the largest of them. He comes from the time when our solar system formed. The rock has never become a real planet, like Earth. Dawn should examine the dwarf planet, to get a better understanding of the origins of our solar system. “Since its discovery in 1801, Ceres was first a planet, an asteroid and then later a dwarf planet. After a journey of 4.9 billion kilometers call Dawn at home, “mission leader Marc Rayman said in a statement.
The journey to the dwarf planet lasted 7.5 years. Dawn was launched in September 2007. In July 2011 the probe arrived at another large boulder, the asteroid Vesta. Which was measured for a year from all over and photographed. Then the scout flew on to Ceres. Vesta and Ceres have a different composition
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