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Bookmark or Share- Vesta Trek - Quick Facts - NASAApproximately 1 billion years ago, an asteroid slammed into Vesta’s South Pole. The impact was almost fatal for Vesta, leaving a crater called Rheasilvia that is about 500 km across (keep in mind that Vesta itself is only 525 km across).
- 4 Vesta - WikipediaVesta (minor-planet designation: 4 Vesta) is one of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, with a mean diameter of 525 kilometres (326 mi). [10] It was discovered by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers on 29 March 1807 [ 6 ] and is named after Vesta , the virgin goddess of home and hearth from Roman mythology .
- Vesta: Facts About the Brightest Asteroid | SpaceVesta is the second most massive body in the asteroid belt, surpassed only by Ceres, which is classified as a dwarf planet. The brightest asteroid in the sky, Vesta is occasionally visible from...
- Meet Vesta - NASA ScienceVesta is located approximately 100 million miles from Earth in the solar system’s main asteroid belt—home to countless bodies that circle the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
- 4 Vesta - Science@NASAVesta is the second most massive body in the main asteroid belt, accounting for almost 9% of the total mass of all asteroids. Only dwarf planet Ceres is more massive in that region of rocky debris between Mars and Jupiter.
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