Society to discuss mission to asteroid belt

The Ventura County Astronomical Society will hold its monthly meeting at 7:30 p.m. Fri., March 21 in the multipurpose room at Mesa Union School, 3901 Mesa School Road in Somis.

The speaker will be Dr. Marc Rayman, who's been with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1986. Rayman's presentation is titled "Now Flying Through a Solar System Near You: The Dawn Mission to the Asteroid Belt."

Rayman is the mission manager and chief engineer on Dawn, a mission to study two of the largest unexplored worlds in the solar system. He has received several honors, including two Exceptional Achievement Medals from NASA.

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