Vesta

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke2205d&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2205. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar System, Asteroids

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Vesta, with a mean diameter of 529 km, is the third largest main-belt ASTEROID and was the fourth asteroid to be discovered. It was found in 1807 by the German Astronomer HEINRICH OLBERS and named after the goddess of fire and the hearth in the Roman mythology. Vesta is the sole `intact' asteroid that may have undergone heating at temperatures able to produce a complete planetary-type DIFFERENTIA...

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