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Originally Posted by troutman

http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/

Dawn is 810,00 kilometers (500,000 miles) from Vesta today and approaching it at 300 meters per second (670 mph).


http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/timeline.asp

I know nothing about space travel (surprisingly) ... but that seems slow to me for some reason.