| 2011 |
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| January 25–26 |
4th Meeting of the NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group
Washington, DC |
| February 14 |
Stardust-NExT encounter with Tempel 1 |
| February 22 |
Target NEO: Providing a Resilient NEO Accessibility Program
for Human Exploration Beyond LEO
Washington, DC
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| March 5–6 |
The Importance of Solar System Sample Return Missions to the
Future of Planetary Science
The Woodlands, TX |
| March 7–11 |
42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
The Woodlands, TX |
| March 14–16 |
Second International Conference on the Exploration of Phobos
and Deimos
Moffett Field, CA |
| April 3–8 |
European Geosciences Union General Assembly
Vienna, Austria |
| April 10–14 |
AAS Division on Dynamical Astronomy
Austin, TX |
| April 11–15 |
Humans in Space Symposium
Houston, TX |
| May 9–12 |
2011 IAA Planetary Defense Conference
Bucharest, Romania |
| May 22–27 |
Japan Geoscience Union International Symposium 2011
Chiba-city, Japan |
| June 21–-24 |
9th IAA Low-Cost Planetary Missions Conference
Laurel, MD |
| July 15 |
Dawn enters survey orbit about Vesta (date is nominal) |
| July 17–22 |
Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2011
Niijita, Japan |
| August 8–12 |
AOGS2011 - Asia Oceania Geosciences Society
Taipei, Taiwan |
| August 8–12 |
74th Annual Meteoritical Society
Greenwich, England |
| August 22–24 |
2nd Meeting of the International Primitive Body Exploration
Working Group
Pasadena CA |
| August 25–26 |
Fifth Meeting of the NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group
Pasadena, CA |
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| 2012 |
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| July 14–22 |
39th COSPAR Scientific Assembly
Mysore, India |
| August 1 |
Rosetta rendezvous with 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Est.) |
| August 15 |
Dawn departs Vesta for Ceres (date is nominal) |
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| 2015 |
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| February 15 |
Dawn enters survey orbit about Ceres (date is nominal) |
| July 14 |
New Horizons closest approach to Pluto |
| August 19 |
Dawn end of mission (date is nominal) |
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