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Vesta

Outline The numbers here are measured. The rest of this page is being written.

Sun
The path of Vesta round the Sun, seen from above and drawn to scale, with the white dot at its nearest point. The faint rings are the paths of Mercury, Venus, the Earth and Mars. Orbit from NASA/JPL Small-Body Database.
Kind
Asteroid
Distance
2.361 au from the Sun on average
Once round
3.629 years
Path
a slightly stretched circle (eccentricity 0.0902), tilted 7.14°
Size
523 km across

The second largest body in the asteroid belt. NASA's Dawn spacecraft orbited it in 2011 and 2012.

The SunOn the atlasIn 3D

Still being written

  1. What it looks like
  2. What it is made of
  3. How it was found
  4. Spacecraft that have visited
  5. Could it hit the Earth?

Sources: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database.