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Loading contentOne of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, visited by NASA's Dawn.
asteroid:vestaDataset membership
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NASA JPL (Caltech)
NASA JPL (Caltech) (n.d.). 4 Vesta — JPL Small-Body Database. NASA JPL (Caltech). https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html
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title = {4 Vesta — JPL Small-Body Database},
organization = {NASA JPL (Caltech)},
year = {n.d.},
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note = {Orbit and physical data for 4 Vesta.}
}NASA
NASA (n.d.). 4 Vesta — NASA Science. NASA. https://science.nasa.gov/
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title = {4 Vesta — NASA Science},
organization = {NASA},
year = {n.d.},
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note = {NASA overview of 4 Vesta.}
}How 4 Vesta connects across Asteria Star — scientific, cultural, and astrological links are kept separate.
The Sun and the bodies gravitationally bound to it.
Vesta & Ceres orbiter · NASA · launched 2007.
Basaltic fragments blasted from the giant south-polar impact basin of 4 Vesta — the source of the HED meteorites found on Earth.
The main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, home to the great majority of known asteroids — from the dwarf planet Ceres down to countless small bodies.
A eucrite whose fall was witnessed in October 1960 (the stones recovered in the following years) — one of the HED meteorites, basaltic rocks blasted from the surface of the asteroid Vesta, whose spectra they match.
The howardite–eucrite–diogenite clan of basaltic achondrites, whose spectra match the asteroid Vesta so closely that they are considered pieces of its crust, delivered to Earth after impacts.
An enormous impact basin covering much of the south pole of the asteroid Vesta, with a central peak among the tallest in the Solar System. Its excavation launched the HED meteorites.
A large, dark asteroid in the outer main belt.
A near-Earth asteroid sampled by NASA's OSIRIS-REx.
The first Mars-crossing asteroid discovered — its orbit crosses that of Mars.
The largest stony (S-type) asteroid and the parent of the Eunomia family in the intermediate main belt.
The namesake of the Hilda group, whose members orbit in a 3:2 mean-motion resonance with Jupiter in the outer main belt.
A metal-rich main-belt asteroid and NASA mission target.
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Orbital data, ephemerides, and small-body parameters for planets, asteroids, and comets.