Dawn: A Journey to the Beginning of the Solar System

(Photo by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft)

Lucy McFadden will discuss NASA’s Dawn Mission which seeks to unlock the mysteries of planetary formation. McFadden investigates comets, asteroids and meteorites for the Planetary Systems Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and is a co-investigator on the Dawn mission to the asteroid 4 Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres.

* Dawn Mission official homepage

Location: Mary Pickford Theater, 3rd Floor, James Madison Building, Library of Congress