Published on December 11th, 2012 | by Scott

Dawn Mission G+ Hangout w/ CosmoQuest: Asteroid Mappers

Hangout with Dawn Mission scientists and educators and explore giant asteroid Vesta through Dawn’s citizen science project, Asteroid Mappers: Vesta Edition, a collaboration between Dawn and CosmoQuest. You’ll hear about the mission and its citizen science from the people who made it happen. We’ll map some images of mini-planet Vesta together, and you’ll get a chance to ask questions.

#deSTEMber continues to rock with that marvelous, not-just-a-rock-in-the-sky, mini-planet Vesta!

Submit your Asteroid Mapper questions by leaving a comment below, on Dawn’s Facebook page, or by using #asteroidmappers on Twitter.

Visit this event page on
December 11, 2012, 5 PM PST / 6 PM MST / 7 PM CST / 8 PM EST to watch the Hangout On Air, and to chime in on the conversation.

Guests include:
- Jennifer Scully, Dawn Science Team, UCLA
- Pamela Gay, CosmoQuest
- Joe Wise, Dawn Education and Public Outreach Manager
- You!

Dawn website: http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/DawnCommunity/google_hangout.asp
Asteroid Mappers: http://cosmoquest.org/mappers/vesta/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nasa_dawn
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dawn.mission

Official website:http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/

Tags: Asteroid Mappers, Citizen Science, CosmoQuest, Dawn, EPO, Google+, Hangouts On Air, Jennifer Scully, Joe Wise, NASA, Pamela Gay, Scott Lewis, Vesta

About the Author

Scott Scott Lewis is the creator of Know The Cosmos. Scott is also the host of the Virtual Star Party on Google+ & YouTube and has hosted shows for Science Sunday. He thrives on engaging with the public on topics of science (especially astronomy and physics), skepticism, technology, curiosity, education, and equal rights.