Reminder: Vesta Fiesta is This Weekend!

Events in Southern California Aug. 02, 2011

This is a feature from the NASA/JPL Education Office.

Reminder: Vesta Fiesta is This Weekend!

Don't miss out on your opportunity to join NASA in celebrating the arrival of its Dawn spacecraft at the
giant asteroid Vesta, plus hear a message from Bill Nye the Science Guy and participate in hands-on
educational activities and games. More details below.

What: Vesta Fiesta, celebrating NASA and the Dawn spacecraft as it explores the large asteroid Vesta

Where: Pasadena Convention Center, 300 East Green Street, Pasadena, Calif. 91101

When: Saturday, August 6, 2011, 1 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. PDT

You and your family are cordially invited to Vesta Fiesta, a party in Pasadena, Calif., dedicated to
celebrating the NASA Dawn mission's adventures as the spacecraft is captured into orbit around the
giant asteroid Vesta and begins exploring this thrilling new world. Dawn will spend about a year in orbit
around Vesta, the second most massive object in the main asteroid belt, located between Mars and
Jupiter, before continuing on to orbit Ceres -- the largest body in the asteroid belt.

Bring your family! Watch Rosetta mission scientist Dr. Claudia Alexander "Cook Up a Kitchen Comet" using dry-ice and her secret ingredients. Leap into hands-on science activities: Ride along with Dawn's ion propulsion system in a cool interactive, make your own asteroid model and touch a genuine iron meteorite while checking out a vast meteorite collection -- including one from Vesta. Meet real NASA scientists and ask the questions you've always wanted to ask!

Schedule of activities:

1 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. PDT -- Educational activities, games and NASA mission displays for the whole family

3 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. PDT - A message from Bill Nye the Science Guy

3:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. PDT - "Cooking Up a Kitchen Comet" with Dr. Claudia Alexander, Rosetta mission
project manager -- streamed live!

3:45 p.m. to 5 p.m. PDT - Educational activities, games and NASA mission displays

5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. PDT -- Presentation by Dawn mission science team with first-release images of Vesta
-- streamed live!

More information: http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/.

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