Volume 5, Issue 2

October 2006

In this issue: Environmental testing of Dawn spacecraft begins Dawn Instrument Integration Completed Ceres a 'Dwarf Planet' Sign up to go to the Asteroid Belt! Email List Signup Instructions Printable version of this newsletter (PDF format) Previous Newsletters

Sign up to go to the Asteroid Belt! November 4th is the last day to sign up to have your name sent to the asteroid belt onboard the Dawn spacecraft! The names will be carried onboard encoded on a computer microchip. To date, over 171,000 names have been submitted through the Dawn website. Go to http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov and click on "Send Your Name to the Asteroid Belt." The "onboard verification" can be printed as a certificate suitable for framing.

Dawn's Early Light is published on an occasional basis and distributed electronically. To contribute material or query the team, email us at dawnnews@igpp.ucla.edu. Editor: Carol A. Raymond Jet Propulsion Laboratory For more information about the Dawn mission, visit the Dawn website http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/dawn