Nasa's Dawn probe bears down on CeresThe US space agency is waiting for confirmation that its Dawn probe has gone into orbit around Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
It has taken the satellite 7.5 years to reach its destination, and it will spend the next 14 months mapping the diminutive world.
Ceres is the first of the dwarf planets to be visited by a spacecraft.
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