Tag: Education

• Vesta and the Taxonomy of Planetology

  Our dictionary is bird-shotted, our synonymicon is swiss-cheesed…and what’s it all got us? Nottadernthing!!! —George Herriman, Krazy Kat (1926) Most of the objects in the Asteroid Belt are pretty small, but a few are of substantial size. Ceres (which is one of the official dwarf planets) and Vesta particularly stand out; the Dawn space probe…

  Matthew R. Francis

  March 27, 2012

  Astronomy, Personal Musings

  Astronomy, Education, Space exploration