Vesta (minor-planet designation: 4 Vesta) is one of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, with a mean diameter of 525 kilometres (326 mi). It was discovered...
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Look up Vesta or vesta in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vesta may refer to: Lada Vesta, a car from Russian car manufacturer AVTOVAZ Swan Vesta (began...
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Vesta (Classical Latin: [ˈwɛs.ta]) is the virgin goddess of the hearth, home, and family in Roman religion. She was rarely depicted in human form, and...
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inner asteroid belt in the vicinity of its namesake and principal body, 4 Vesta. It is one of the largest asteroid families with more than 15,000 known...
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simplified to parentheses, "(4)" and "(4) Vesta", which was easier to typeset. Other punctuation such as "4) Vesta" and "4, Vesta" was also used, but had more...
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56°11′48″N 10°10′49″E / 56.1966997°N 10.1802483°E / 56.1966997; 10.1802483 Vestas Wind Systems A/S is a Danish manufacturer, seller, installer, and servicer...
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whose spectral type is that of 4 Vesta. Approximately 6% of main-belt asteroids are vestoids,[citation needed] with Vesta being by far the largest of them...
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The Lada Vesta is a compact car produced by the Russian car company AvtoVAZ since 2015. It was presented in August 2014 during the Moscow International...
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other asteroids (2 Pallas, 3 Juno, and 4 Vesta) were discovered by von Zach's group over the next few years, with Vesta found in 1807. No new asteroids were...
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the fictional character Tobias Eaton in the Divergent series of books 4 Vesta, the second-largest asteroid after Ceres in the asteroid belt , symbol...
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in 2260. 4 Vesta came to perihelion on 26 December 2021, but using a two-body solution at an epoch of July 2021 less accurately shows Vesta came to perihelion...
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Dawn (spacecraft) (category 4 Vesta)
asteroid belt: Vesta and Ceres. In the fulfillment of that mission—the ninth in NASA's Discovery Program—Dawn entered orbit around Vesta on July 16, 2011...
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Vesta 4 U is the second studio album by American R&B singer Vesta Williams, released on November 21, 1988, on A&M Records. The album peaked at No. 131...
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at 2.50 AU) has few large asteroids. Of those in the above list, only 4 Vesta, 19 Fortuna, 6 Hebe, 7 Iris and 9 Metis orbit there. (Sort table by mean...
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of the main belt mass is contained in the four largest asteroids: Ceres, Vesta, Pallas, and Hygiea. The total mass of the asteroid belt is estimated to...
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Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (redirect from Discoverer of Vesta)
1802 and 1807, discovered the second and the fourth asteroids Pallas and Vesta. Olbers was born in Arbergen, Germany, today part of Bremen, and studied...
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is a list of named geological features, of various kinds, on asteroid 4 Vesta. In modern Latin orthography, this name is spelled 'Junia', and pronounced...
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has classified 4 Vesta, 246 Asporina, 349 Dembowska, 571 Dulcinea and 937 Bethgea as type R; however, the re-classification of Vesta, the V archetype...
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regoliths. Ceres is a surviving protoplanet that formed 4.56 billion years ago; alongside Pallas and Vesta, one of only three remaining in the inner Solar System...
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"Marooned off Vesta" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was the third story he wrote, and the first to be published...
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century, astrologers abbreviated the symbol for 4 Vesta (the sacred fire of Vesta, encoded U+26B6 ⚶ VESTA), and introduced new symbols for 5 Astraea (,...
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within 0.04 AU of 4 Vesta. During these encounters, Vesta causes a gravitational perturbation of Arete, allowing the mass of Vesta to be directly determined...
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The Temple of Vesta, or the aedes (Latin Aedes Vestae; Italian: Tempio di Vesta), is an ancient edifice in Rome, Italy. It is located in the Roman Forum...
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in Greek; other examples are Ἥρα (Hera) for 3 Juno, Ἑστία (Hestia) for 4 Vesta, Χλωρίς (Chloris) for 8 Flora, and Πίστη (Pistis) for 37 Fides. In Chinese...
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rotation period of Venus. He also calculated perturbations in the orbit of 4 Vesta. In the literature, he is sometimes referred to as Henri Perrotin and sometimes...
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is a V-type asteroid, meaning that it may be a fragment of the asteroid 4 Vesta. In 2000, radar observations conducted at the Arecibo and Goldstone observatories...
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Rheasilvia (category Surface features of 4 Vesta)
the asteroid Vesta. It is 505 km (314 mi) in diameter, which is 90% the diameter of Vesta itself, and is 95% the mean diameter of Vesta, 529 km (329 mi)...
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782 members, named after 24 Themis) Vesta family The Vesta family (adj. Vestian; 15,252 members, named after 4 Vesta) In 2015, a study identified 122 notable...
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group are the stony-like V-type (4 Vesta), also known as "vestoids" most common among the members of the large Vesta family, thought to have originated...
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Planetary nomenclature (section 4 Vesta)
list [3] Astronomers who made detailed studies of the planet Facula list [4] The word 'snake' in various languages Fossae list [5] Significant works of...
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