Vesta
At a glance
- Type
- Asteroid
- Distance
- Solar System
- Naked eye
- Only through a telescope
- Known since
- 1600–1900 (early telescopes)
- Colour
- Grey
- Feature
- Nothing special
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- NASA's Dawn spacecraft circled Vesta for more than a year, in 2011 and 2012.
- Some meteorites found on Earth are bits of Vesta knocked off by huge impacts long ago.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q3030 · All space objects · All entries