Atlas — the interactive world
the Solar System · Understand · schematic figure · 8 planets · 5 dwarf planets · 2 belts · 1 comet · positions computed for today · editorial corpus · no live source connected
Mission · NASA · Completed
Dawn
- Launched —
- 2007-09-27
Encounter order — not trajectory
- 1. 2011-07-16 · 4 Vesta · orbit insertionDawn enters orbit around Vesta
- 2. 2015-03-06 · Ceres · orbit insertionDawn enters orbit around Ceres — the first dwarf planet orbited
An encounter sequence is the order the records give, not a flight path. Atlas holds no trajectory for these missions and draws none.
Dates are the operator’s mission record; none was network-verified in this production run, and the record says so.
Schematic · log-compressed · ranked discs · not an ephemeris — full statement →
Schematic view: distances are log-compressed (to true scale Neptune sits 30× Earth’s distance) and discs are ranked by size, not to scale. Positions computed from JPL mean orbital elements for today — an orientation good to a few degrees, not an ephemeris.
Data: NASA Planetary Fact Sheet · JPL approximate elements · JPL small-body database (1P/Halley).