NASA’s Dawn spacecraft was launched on 27 September 2007. Its goal is to reach the asteroid Vesta, study it from orbit and then break orbit and rendezvous with Ceres, the largest member of the asteroid belt. Ceres, like Pluto, was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. Dawn will reach Ceres in February 2015, five months before the New Horizons spacecraft reaches Pluto.