Dawn Spacecraft Buzzes Largest Asteroid - Final Orbits.

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The Dawn spacecraft has moved to its final orbit, an orbit which will bring it down to 35km from the surface of Ceres. It's being placed in this orbit to collect better data from its Gamma Ray and Neutron Detector instrument to give scientist a better understanding of the chemistry.



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