TORONTO, ON.- In celebration of the arrival of NASA’s Dawn mission to the asteroid Vesta, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) presents the world’s most comprehensive collection of meteorites thought to be from that asteroid. On temporary exhibition in the Vale Gallery of Minerals, inside the Teck Suite of Galleries: Earth’s Treasures, the display houses 30 diverse specimens from Vesta, the second most massive asteroid in our solar system. “No other public institution in the world has put together such a wide-ranging display of this type of meteorite,” said Dr. Kim Tait, ROM Associate Curator of Mineralogy. “NASA travelled 3.5 billion kilometers to reach Vesta. Our visitors need travel no further than the ROM!” Launched in 2007, NASA’s Dawn probe is the space agency’s first major mission to study asteroids in detail. The mission focuses on Vesta and Ceres, the two largest known bodies in ou