Vesta and Ceres
Insights from the Dawn Mission for the Origin of the Solar System

Editors

Simone Marchi, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado
Simone Marchi is a Principal Scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. He has been involved in several space missions and is the Deputy Project Scientist for the NASA Lucy mission, co-investigator for the NASA Psyche mission, co-investigator for instruments on board ESA BepiColombo and JUICE missions. He was co-investigator for the Dawn mission and associate scientist for instruments on board ESA Rosetta. He has won multiple awards including the Paolo Farinella Prize (2017), NASA's Susan Mahan Neibur Early Career Award (2014), and several Group Achievement Awards from NASA and ESA.

Carol A. Raymond, California Institute of Technology
Carol A. Raymond is a Principal Scientist at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Lab. She has been involved in mission and instrument leadership for NASA and program science support at JPL. She was the Deputy Principal Investigator on the NASA Dawn Discovery Mission and Principal Investigator of the Europa Magnetometer System (ICEMAG) for the NASA Europa Clipper mission. Her research focuses on geophysics and interiors of small bodies and moons, and magnetic fields in the Solar System. She has received multiple awards including three NASA Exceptional Public Achievement Medals (2013, 2016, 2019), the Shoemaker Award from the American Geophysical Union (2018), and the National Aeronautic Association Collier Award to the Dawn Flight Team (2015).

Christopher T. Russell, University of California, Los Angeles
Christopher T. Russell is a Distinguished Professor in the Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences department at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was the Principal Investigator of NASA's Dawn ion-propelled mission to Vesta and Ceres. He has been awarded the American Geophysical Union Macelwane Award and Fleming medal, COSPAR's Space Science Award, NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (2012) and Distinguished Public Service Medal (2017), and the National Aeronautic Association Collier Award to the Dawn Flight Team (2015). He has built and operated instruments on many space missions.

Contributors

Pierre Vernazza, Fumihiko Usui, Sunao Hasegawa, Christopher T. Russell, Marc D. Rayman, Harry Y. McSween Jr., Richard P. Binzel, Michael J. Toplis, Doris Breuer, Debra L. Buczkowski, Ralf Jaumann, Simone Marchi, Jean-Philippe Combe, Naoyuki Yamashita, Maria Cristina De Sanctis, Andrea Raponi, Thomas Prettyman, Eleonora Ammannito, Bethany Ehlmann, David A. Williams, Andreas Nathues, Jennifer E. C. Scully, Julie Castillo-Rogez, Philip Bland, Anton I. Ermakov, Carol A. Raymond, Hubert Klahr, Marco Delbo, Konstantin Gerbig, Katherine R. Bermingham, Thomas S. Kruijer, Sean N. Raymond, David Nesvorný, William F. Bottke, Martin Jutzi