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The Asteroid Belt
Check out the driveway. The driveway represents the Asteroid Belt, millions upon millions of asteroids in the belt. The two stepping stones in the asteroid belt, one to the Northwest of the Sun represents Vesta, and the one to the North of the Sun represents Ceres, the two largest objects in the belt. In September 2007 a probe was sent to Vesta, which arrived and put a satellite into orbit in July of 2011. It has since left Vesta and headed toward Ceres. It arrived at Ceres in September of 2015 and has taken up an orbit around Ceres. If it completes this maneuver it will be the first spacecraft to visit Ceres and the first time a man-made object will have orbited one body in space, left that orbit, and taken up orbit around another body in space, except for moon/earth orbiting.