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Feb 27, 2015 at 11:49 history tweeted twitter.com/#!/StackSpaceExp/status/571275964707168256
Feb 27, 2015 at 7:24 comment added neelsg @KeithThompson "The spot is visible from Earth, or at least from Earth’s orbit, showing up in photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2003 and 2004". Dawn was launched in 2007
Feb 27, 2015 at 1:28 vote accept user3339411
Feb 26, 2015 at 21:02 comment added Zibbobz There's also the possilbity that it will answer this question: space.stackexchange.com/q/2738/8442
Feb 26, 2015 at 20:24 comment added Keith Thompson @neelsg: Not to spoil the joke, but I thought Dawn discovered the white dot.
Feb 26, 2015 at 18:13 comment added Russell Borogove All other things being equal (which they never are), I think a larger body is more likely to have something surprising to find on it.
Feb 26, 2015 at 12:14 comment added LocalFluff @neelsg Go figure, but for one thing it seems to be two dots now.
S Feb 26, 2015 at 10:18 history edited TildalWave CC BY-SA 3.0
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S Feb 26, 2015 at 10:18 history suggested CommunityBot CC BY-SA 3.0
The edit might seem trivial, but it corrects a glaring grammar error in the title.
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Feb 26, 2015 at 7:26 answer added Mikey timeline score: 25
Feb 26, 2015 at 7:26 comment added neelsg For some of us, it was to figure out what the hell that white dot is: xkcd.com/1476
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