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Jun. 5th, 2011

The Dawn spacecraft is now about as close to the asteroid Vesta as the moon is to the earth.

(According to this page, at 21:22:33 UTC June 5, 2011, Dawn was 398,400 km from Vesta; according to Wikipedia, the moon's average distance from Earth is 384,399 km.)

Dawn is scheduled to begin orbiting Vesta on July 16.

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