Off Vesta

[stickmaker]

Anyone else following the Dawn mission? It's currently at the asteroid Vesta (featured in an early Asimov story):

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

(worksafe)

Comments

[brotherguy.livejournal.com]

I am, obviously!

But for me, it's work. (Still thrilling, obviously.) It's a law in my field that one cannot write a paper about Vesta without referencing "Consolmagno and Drake, 1977" which of course came out before half the people in my field were even born... should I be pleased that it is still referenced, or embarrassed that in 35 years I never did anything near as good again?

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

How about: Irritated we haven't already gathered enough information to replace - or at least amend - your paper?

[purpleranger.livejournal.com]

His earliest story, to be precise. Or his earliest published story, at least.