Mutiny at Vesta by R.E. Stearns Barbary Station was one of my favorite reads of 2017, and I've been really excited for its sequel Mutiny at Vesta.
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The largest asteroids, like Vesta and Ceres, are also nearly-spherical.
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Vesta Tilley, male impersonator of the English music-hall stage: pic.twitter.
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Even though Vesta is diminutive, it still exhibits some planetlike qualities.
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Eventually, they escape, and in Stearns' next novel Mutiny at Vesta, the whole crew jets off to their base of operations on the asteroid Vesta, only to find that their situation is more perilous than they realized.
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Vesta Bootie, $59.98 (Originally $250) [You save $190.02] Also available in black.
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There are five CDJs, a vesta battle mixer...And a couple of Numarks.
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And fortunately, Stearns' followup novel, Mutiny at Vesta, is due out next year.
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Before Dawn orbited Ceres, it visited Vesta, another asteroid, from 2011 to 2013.
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The personal robot, codenamed "Vesta," and rumored since last year, is reportedly gaining traction.
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Most recently, Vesta came closer to our planet than it has in 20 years.
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It found the two objects, Vesta and Ceres, were very different from each other.
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Vesta Stoudt, the creator of duct tape herself, drops by with a few tips.
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Cosmic rays also created problems during the Dawn mission to asteroids Ceres and Vesta.
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The wheeled robot is codenamed "Vesta", and can be summoned with a voice command.
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By comparing Ceres with Vesta, we'll glean new insights about the early solar system.
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The Dawn findings also confirmed that certain meteorites found on Earth originated from Vesta.
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Hygiea is the fourth largest object in the asteroid belt behind Ceres, Vesta and Pallas.
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Vesta is similar to the inner planets, and most likely formed near its present location.
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If Amazon does move forward with its "Vesta" bot, it's unclear when it will launch.
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Amazon is building smart robots as part of a project named "Vesta," according to Bloomberg.
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Dawn visited Vesta and Ceres, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit two deep-space destinations.
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Launched in 2007, the spacecraft discovered bright spots on Ceres and forbidding terrain on Vesta.
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Vesta is dry and heavily cratered, resembling the moon, while Ceres is full of water.
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However, Bloomberg notes that the company has pulled engineers from other projects to work on Vesta.
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For the Romans, Midsummer was a tribute to Vesta, goddess of the hearth, virginity, and marriage.
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Information collected by Dawn showed that Ceres, unlike Vesta, has been using water to create minerals.
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But at its previous destination, the asteroid Vesta, two of the four wheels overheated and failed.
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For Vesta Marie Jacob S. Knabb is an Appalachian by birth and a Chicagoan by choice.
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The project has been given the internal codename "Vesta," named after the Roman goddess of the hearth.
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The company is continuing work on an Alexa-enabled home robot called "Vesta" internally, Bloomberg also reported.
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Vesta and Ceres are considered to be like time capsules from the beginning of our solar system.
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" Today, Stewart adds, "Virgo and the asteroid Vesta represent our relationship with rituals, sacred space and devotion.
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The Vesta project originated a few years ago, but this year Amazon began to aggressively ramp up hiring.
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It's called Vesta, and yes, 329 miles is really big — that's about 25 times the length of Manhattan.
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Behind the "Vesta" project is Amazon's Lab126 division, responsible for the company's hardware successes like the Kindle and Echo.
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The robot, reportedly codenamed Vesta, is purportedly being developed by Amazon Lab126—a research facility based in Sunnyvale, California.
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Harmony, owned by the Vesta family, hopes to fully re-open on Monday pending talks with CFIA, he said.
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The Vesta project is in the hands of Amazon's Lab126, which developed the company's Echo and Fire TV products.
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After launching in 2007, the spacecraft headed to Vesta and spent a year orbiting that asteroid (from 2011 to 2012).
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The asteroid 4 Vesta is so large it can be currently be seen as it travels through the constellation Sagittarius.
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Launched in 2007, it's been investigating Ceres and Vesta, two mysterious protoplanets in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
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Mutiny at Vesta hits bookstores on October 2nd, but we have an excerpt for you to read while you wait.
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After orbiting Vesta for a year, the probe then traveled to Ceres, entering the dwarf planet's orbit in March 2015.
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Compared to unisex vests, the Ultra Vesta allows for more adjustment based on bust size and women's upper body compositions.
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Vesta commits herself to not only solving this mystery but also understanding the woman at the center of it. —A.
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Vesta easy to spot compared to other asteroids in the same belt as its surface is more reflective than the moon.
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These include Vesta and Pluto, but as the researchers point out, none of these objects are poised to intersect Earth's orbit.
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But if that's functionality that customers actually want, it might be Vector, not Vesta, that's the first device to offer it.
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Sales were driven by the success of new models, including the higher-end Vesta and XRAY, VTB Capital analyst Vladimir Bespalov said.
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That trip would've been much longer than their actual route, which had cut across the reliable routes between Vesta and Barbary Station.
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The company is reportedly working on a robot codenamed "Vesta" that would act as a mobile version of the Alexa voice assistant.
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"Because of Dawn's exploration of Vesta, we have a really good idea how many craters we should see on Ceres," he told Gizmodo.
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Project Vesta, as the robot is supposedly called, would follow users around their home so they can talk to Alexa in more places.
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Over the course of its mission, it completed 2,450 orbits around both Vesta and Ceres, and returned almost 70,000 images back to Earth.
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The device is being called "Vesta" internally, and the company is said to have ramped up work on the project in recent months.
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But if this "Vesta" home robot truly is Amazon's next big bet for the home, it's unclear if those assets will be enough.
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They entered the service of the goddess Vesta at an early age and were required to remain virgins until the age of 36.
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For one, many of the achondrites then came from Vesta, a large asteroid that suffered a powerful impact about a billion years ago.
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The plan for Vesta was apparently to release it this year, but it's not yet quite ready for mass production, according to Bloomberg's sources.
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The probe arrived at Ceres in March 2015 after studying the asteroid Vesta for a little more than a year from 2011 to 2012.
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Vesta probably formed in the inner solar system and stayed between Mars and Jupiter, and it evolved just like the other rocky planets there.
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That's in spite of the fact that neighboring minor planet Vesta, which Dawn visited first, has craters of up to 300 miles (500 kilometers) across.
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Launched in 2007, the Dawn spacecraft traveled for years to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, first visiting an asteroid named Vesta in 2011.
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During Midsummer, the temple of Vesta—guarded by virgins—would be open to all women who wished to worship or make sacrifices to the goddess.
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The Dawn spacecraft launched in 2007 on a Delta II rocket and became the first vehicle to visit and orbit the asteroid Vesta in 2011.
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Dawn was the first mission to reach a dwarf planet and the first mission to orbit 2 distinct extraterrestrial objects (it orbited Vesta in 2011).
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Vesta is also known for having one of the tallest peaks ever seen by humans, a 13-mile high mountain that stands on its south pole.
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"This result came as a real surprise as we were expecting the presence of a large impact basin, as is the case on Vesta," Vernazza said.
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Dawn was two years older than Kepler, launching in 2007, with the mission to study Vesta and Ceres, the two largest objects in the asteroid belt.
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Vesta had an iron core and a pitted surface that boasted craters, including one with a mountain twice the size of Mount Everest at its center.
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If Sloane's second-in-command on Vesta wanted to welcome them back, she should have at least sent a lackey with VIP passes for public transportation.
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"When we set sail for Ceres upon completing our Vesta exploration, we expected to be surprised by what we found on our next stop," Russell said.
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The two explorers crack open plants, harvest animals' bodily fluids, and use mysterious interfaces built into the organisms of the planet Vesta Minor to accomplish... something.
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Dawn's trip from Vesta to Ceres made it the first spacecraft to enter into orbit around one world, and then leave to orbit a second world.
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If Vesta is indeed just an Amazon Echo speaker that can walk from room to room, let's hope it at least is equipped with cup holders.
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft flew by the dwarf planets (which also can be thought of as very large asteroids) Ceres and Vesta in 2012 and 2015, respectively.
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A secretive robotics project called "Vesta," which is reported to be a new home robot, according to Bloomberg, is run by Gregg Zehr, a longtime Lab126 executive.
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While Vesta was all rock and metal, Dawn found that Ceres had rock and ice, studded with bright spots that indicated the presence of salts or carbonates.
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Adda and Iridian escaped from the station in that book, and now they're part of Captain Sloane's crew, headed to the crew's base on the asteroid Vesta.
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Some of this ability was apparent in the grays and silvers of "Vesta," a lithograph of his own that he made while training at Tamarind in 1962.
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For gifts and graphics, visit Vesta Design Boutique, housed in William's Cottage, which was built in 1073 on the lakefront and is registered as Queenstown's oldest house.
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A prototype for the Vesta robot is said to be about "waist-high and navigate with the help of an array of computer-vision cameras" and have wheels.
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The space rock, known as 4 Vesta is four times the size of the UK and so bright that it can be spotted from 106 million miles away.
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The program was named after the late Republican lawmaker Vesta Roy, the first woman to serve as both state Senate president and as acting governor of New Hampshire.
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Virgo is named after the vestal virgins, a group of women in ancient times that never married and lived in the temple of Vesta, the goddess of hearth.
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Supposedly, we were set to see Vesta hit the market earlier this year, but a new Bloomberg report published Friday says it's not ready for mass production yet.
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Powered by a breakthrough ion thruster, DAWN arrived at its first destination, asteroid 4 Vesta, on July 16th, 2011, where it spent over a year mapping the surface.
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The company is reportedly working on a home robot, codenamed "Vesta," that would essentially serve as a mobile version of Alexa that could follow you around the home.
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The pad sent the MESSENGER mission to Mercury, the Dawn spacecraft to Vesta and Ceres, and NASA's prolific Spitzer and Kepler space telescopes into their orbits around the Sun.
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The androgynous look, which Dietrich said had been inspired by the English music hall performer Vesta Tilley, became the actress's signature, and she appears to have guarded it jealously.
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Lately, however, the Vesta colony has been sending forth a wholly different sort of export: refugees fleeing oppression, who attach themselves to cargo via a laborious and dangerous process.
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NASA launched the mission in 2007, sending Dawn first to the large asteroid Vesta — the second largest object in the asteroid belt after Ceres — before moving on to Ceres itself.
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The project is reportedly codenamed "Vesta" (after the Roman goddess of the hearth), and rumors suggest it's a sort of "mobile Alexa" that's able to follow users around their homes.
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Vesta, on the other hand, is said to be the product of Lab126 — the Amazon R&D center that gave the world the Echo and a bevy of Fire devices.
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People familiar with the project speculate that the Vesta robot could be a sort of mobile Alexa, accompanying customers in parts of their home where they don't have Echo devices.
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Scientists expected the dwarf planet to be similar to the heavily cratered Vesta — a large asteroid in the Asteroid Belt that Dawn visited before putting itself in orbit around Ceres.
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The experiments Dawn carried out enabled astronomers to look at the different ways Vesta and Ceres formed and evolved, as well as revealing that dwarf planets can also host oceans.
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" Bishop Vesta Dixon of the Evening Star Missionary Baptist Church told the Chicago Sun-Times that Johnson sang in the choir and was also an usher, calling him a "good kid.
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Dawn arrived at Ceres in March 2015 after spending a bit more than a year exploring the protoplanet Vesta, another relatively large object in the astroid belt from 2011 to 2012.
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Vesta, on the other hand, probably formed close to where it is today, a region in which ice would have been heated away early in the history of the solar system.
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Stauber, 29, is a clinical social worker at Vesta, an outpatient clinic in Silver Spring, Md. She graduated from American University and received a Master of Social Work from Catholic University.
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Ion engines do allow lighter spacecraft like NASA's Dawn to stop and go into orbit around an asteroid (Vesta) and then to travel to a different asteroid (Ceres) and orbit it.
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Codenamed "Vesta," after the Roman goddess of the hearth, home and family, the project is overseen by Gregg Zehr, who runs Amazon's Lab126 hardware research and development division based in Sunnyvale, California.
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The data it collected has shown that both bodies are complex objects: Vesta is home to a mountain that dwarfs Mount Everest, while the bright spots on Ceres continue to raise questions.
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A prototype of the robot, codenamed "Vesta," is about "waist-high," can be controlled by voice and is capable of moving around on its own using built-in cameras, according to the report.
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In "Vesta the Johnny" (2015) a vaudeville male impersonator, based on real life male-impersonator Vesta Tilley, stands pensively in thought, beside a gigantic egg; in "Teetering on the Ledge of a Transient Thought" (2016) a dish of eggs is precariously balanced on a man's head and a shell and bat adorn his face; and in "A Perfect Gentleman" (2016) three egg-like mushrooms sprout from a patch on a man's head and a butterfly and pink rose adorn his face.
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Bloomberg reported last April that Amazon was working on a home robot codenamed "Vesta" (after the Roman goddess of the hearth and home), and now the publication says that development on the project continues.
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This route had taken them through most of the Near Earth Union, with a stopover on Mars before exiting NEU territory en route to Vesta, one of several populated asteroids in the asteroid belt.
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"Even Vesta, only about half of Ceres' size, has two big basins at its south pole," said Dawn researcher David Williams, director of the Ronald Greeley Center for Planetary Studies at Arizona State University.
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Drag kings have always existed—you just need to look at the Victorian-era male impersonator Vesta "Burlington Bertie" Tilley or the Man for a Day workshops founded by performance artist Diane Torr in 1990.
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Until now, scientists had suggested that only about 44 percent of the asteroids in the inner main belt belonged to five asteroid families, each named after their largest body — Flora, Vesta, Nysa, Polana and Eulalia.
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Compared to dry Vesta, Ceres is more like Enceladus and Europa, icy moons of the giant gas planets Saturn and Jupiter respectively, than Earth and the other terrestrial planets Mercury, Venus and Mars, Prettyman added.
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I recommended Ultimate Direction's Ultra Vesta in last year's guide, but I myself have since downgraded to a lighter and more convenient handheld; I just don't run far enough to warrant a full running vest.
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More damning is the way Egan constructs the conflict on Vesta, which is so simplistic as to suggest that Egan doesn't fully understand how oppression works — or that he is trying to make an inappropriate point.
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The reported inclusion of wheels, voice summoning, and computer vision would seem to indicate the Vesta can follow you around, acting as a sort of mobile Echo device for rooms where you don't have an Echo nearby.
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Alan Stern, the principal investigator for New Horizons, has stated that the SWRI is considering a probe similar to the Dawn mission, which used a solar-powered ion engine to explore Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres.
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft has been orbiting Ceres, the largest of thousands of rocky bodies located in the main asteroid belt, since March 2015 following 14-month study of Vesta, the second-largest object in the asteroid belt.
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Vesta didn't have as much water as Ceres, so it melted its own interior to form a metallic core and rocky crust, while Ceres has a rocky clay-like mantle and an outer ice-water-rich shell.
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Vesta was first discovered in 1807 and was named after the Roman goddess of the hearth and home, who is sister to Ceres – the name of the largest asteroid in the belt, which measures 587 miles in diameter.
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By examining samples from the moon, as well as Mars and the asteroid Vesta, scientists are comparing how rocks are formed under different gravitational conditions; specifically, how gravity affected the magma within rocky bodies billions of years ago.
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Launched in 2007, Dawn has been sending home close-up views of Ceres and Vesta — the largest asteroids in the belt between Mars and Jupiter — as well as clues to the building blocks of the solar system's planets.
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The exact goal of the project, said to be codenamed "Vesta," is unclear, but smart money is on some kind of mobile Alexa speaker that can move from room to room, extending the digital assistant's presence in a home.
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Adda Karpe and Iridian Nassir escaped from the clutches of Barbary Station and its murderous AI protector, only to find themselves in new troubles when they arrive on the asteroid Vesta with their new pirate crew, led by Captain Sloane.
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R. In a similar vein to her previous novel Eileen, Moshfegh brings us the dark, suspenseful, and morbidly funny whodunit Death in Her Hands, which follows elderly widow Vesta Gul as she happens upon a mystery that quickly obsesses her.
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For other clues as to what Vesta could look like, if and when it ever launches, a good model might be Kuri, the robot developed by Bosch internal startup Mayfield Robotics which was shuttered a year ago and never made it to market.
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Other places I found close to downtown included Vesta Coffee Roasters and Sin City Yoga, a friendly studio where one of the class participants brought his dog, and people chatted easily to each other — a rarity in the U.K., where people are more shy.
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Clicking and dragging your mouse lets you examine the details in each room in 360˚, albeit from one fixed perspective; ScanLAB has also scanned and digitized select objects on display, from the famed alabaster sarcophagus of King Seti to cork and plaster models of the ancient Temple of Vesta.
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Many of these early images aren't that different from the popular tourist vistas of today, such as Italian photographer Pietro Dovizielli's luminous 1850s salted paper print of the Temple of Vesta in Rome that takes in the stately monument and a couple of visitors seated at the fountain.
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Margaret is trying to increase the number of Republican women campaigning for office by running the Vesta Roy Excellence in Public Service Series, a decade-old state program that encourages Republican women in elected or appointed governmental and political positions, as well as volunteer and staff positions at all levels.
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George Jordan and Agustin Rodriguez, of ANR Signature Collection, the sellers of the $15.895 million Los Angeles property, declined to say what they spent on the social media open house but said the cost was offset by several sponsors, including the weed purveyor (Bloom) and Vesta, the staging company that furnished the home.
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The museum is also home to a world-class meteorite collection that includes the five largest pieces of the moon found on earth, the largest known piece of the Vesta asteroid and an igneous rock that, at over 4.5 billion years old, is the oldest volcanic rock in the solar system to ever be discovered.
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BRUSSELS, Nov 16 (Reuters) - The following are mergers under review by the European Commission and a brief guide to the EU merger process: — French public sector lender Caisse des Depots Group and Consignations (CDC), insurer Swiss Life and French rail company SNCF Group to acquire joint control of real estate company Fonciere Vesta, which is an SNCF subsidiary (approved Nov.
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"Forming a tense square with asteroid Vesta in materialistic Taurus, this moon's influence could play out as a guilt trip for putting ourselves first, but luckily, the balancing energy of asteroid Juno makes its presence by a harmonious sextile to help us realize that at the end of the day, having our five minutes of fame does bring us emotional comfort and security," Montúfar explains.
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Prior investments include athenahealth (NASDAQ: ATHN), American Esoteric Laboratories (acquired by Sonic Healthcare Limited), Argus Information & Advisory Services (acquired by Verisk Analytics), CareMedic Systems (acquired by Ingenix), CLARiENT (acquired by GE Healthcare), Harbor Payments (acquired by American Express), Health Dialog (acquired by British United Provident Association), Odyssey Healthcare, Oak Tree/Oxford, NetSpend (acquired TSYS), PayFlex Systems (acquired by Aetna), PharMEDium Healthcare (acquired by CD&R), Point Carbon (acquired by Thomson Reuters), Psychiatric Solutions (acquired by Universal Health Services), TxVia (acquired by Google), United BioSource (acquired by Medco Health Solutions) and Vesta.
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In that view, the three remaining columns of the Temple of Castor and Pollux were just left of center in the foreground, the relatively small Temple of Vesta was on the right foreground, the Arch of Septimius Severus was behind them in the middle distance, and way in the background at the left were the Capitoline Hill and the massive 19th-century monument to Vittorio Emanuele II. Within 30 minutes of scrolling through Instagram, I found nine photos containing these monuments, all in the same arrangement relative to one another, all seemingly photographed from the same spot.
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