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  • Dawn at Vesta: A Whole New World

     

    Seminar Title

    Dawn at Vesta: A Whole New World 

    Speaker:

    Dr. LI, Jianyang

    Affiliation: 

    (University of Maryland)

       

    When:

    Friday morning, May 11th , 10:30 a.m

    Where:

     
    The 3rd Floor, SOFTECH Building (NJU)
     
     

    Welcome to Attend

     
      ( PMO Academic Committee & Academic Circulating committee)
     
     

     

    Abstract    
    Asteroids, as both the building blocks of and leftovers from the formation of our planetary system, retain important information about the processes of planet formation. Vesta is one of the largest asteroids, representing the early stage of terrestrial planet formation and the transition from planetesimals to a full-sized planet. Dawn spacecraft currently in orbit around Vesta returned a huge amount of multispectral imaging and spectroscopic data in the visible and near-infrared wavelengths at a scale as high as 20 m/pix, substantially expanding our knowledge about Vesta. Dawn data provide high-precision measurement of the basic properties of Vesta including its shape and gravity, and constrain its internal structure. Vesta displays extremely large variations on its albedo, color, and spectra across the surface, a result of its complicated impact history. Vesta, as seen by Dawn, is a unique world full of surprises in many aspects.

     

     
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