DAWN ACTIVITY LEADER GUIDE RACE TO THE ASTEROID BELT Goal: Play this board game to find out who will get to Vesta and Ceres first!

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• Coin flipping
• Random selection
• 4 Vesta
• Dawn
• Asteroid
• Coin Hopping--Washington D.C.
• Games
• Spaceflight
• Planetary science

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• Eridanus constellation
• Planetary systems
• Solar System
• Spitzer Space Telescope
• Kuiper belt
• Planet
• Asteroid belt
• Comet
• Eridanus
• Astronomy
• Space
• Planetary science

Asteroid Vesta Gets a Visit in July[removed]News story date: June[removed]At least 100,000 rocky objects called asteroids orbit the Sun in a large, circular region called the asteroid belt, situated between Mars and Jupiter.

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• 4 Vesta
• Vesta
• Solar System
• Space science
• Asteroid
• Dawn
• Terrestrial planet
• Planet
• Moon
• Planetary science
• Astronomy
• Ceres

Spring 2013 Applications Awarded Time Heather Kaluna, Karen Meech, Bin Yang Water Distributions in the Main Asteroid Belt Adam Burgasser, Sarah Schmidt, Andrew West, John Bochanski, Suzanne Hawley

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• 15630 Disanti
• Binzel
• Pan-STARRS
• David C. Jewitt
• Brown dwarf
• Asteroid
• Schelte J. Bus
• Astronomical spectroscopy
• Stellar classification
• Astronomy
• Planetary science
• Main Belt asteroids

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Cool, Curious Comets What brings comets to the inner solar system? Sometimes the gravitational pull of a passing star

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• Comets
• Discovery program
• Comet
• Oort cloud
• Deep Impact
• 103P/Hartley
• Kuiper belt
• 81P/Wild
• Asteroid
• Spaceflight
• Spacecraft
• Solar System

Fall 2013 Applications Awarded Time Vladimir Krasnopolsky Variations of Minor Atmospheric Constituents on Venus Andrew Mann, Eric Gaidos

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• Binzel
• Schelte J. Bus
• Gaffey
• Asteroid
• Brown dwarf
• David C. Jewitt
• Astronomy
• Planetary science
• Main Belt asteroids

Voyage: A Journey through our Solar System Grades 5-8 Lesson 8: Comets: Bringers of Life? On a visit to the National Mall in Washington, DC, one can see monuments of a nation—Memorials

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• Planetary science
• Comet
• Oort cloud
• Kuiper belt
• Asteroid
• Deep Impact
• Jupiter
• Impact event
• Comet dust
• Astronomy
• Solar System
• Space

Submitted arXiv:1404.4640v1 [astro-ph.EP] 17 Apr 2014 Trajectory analysis for the nucleus and dust of comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring)

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• Comet
• Asteroid belt
• Solar System
• Orbit
• C/2006 P1
• Sun
• Radiation pressure
• Mars program
• Astronomical unit
• Astronomy
• Celestial mechanics
• Space

Characterizing  Poten/ally  Hazardous  Asteroids  with  NEOWISE   A.  Mainzer,  T.  Grav,  J.  Masiero,  J.  Bauer,  R.  S.  McMillan,  J.  Giorgini,  T.  Spahr

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• Asteroid
• Giorgini
• Main Belt asteroids
• Astronomy
• Jedicke

David Jewitt (UCLA) : Disintegrating Asteroid P/2013 R3 • Discovered by ground-based telescopes • Resolved by HST as multiple, evolving body • Asteroidal orbit @3AU • No dynamical path to the Kuiper belt • Fi

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