4 Vesta - Wikipedia
NASA's Dawn spacecraft entered orbit around Vesta on 16 July 2011 for a one-year exploration and left the orbit of Vesta on 5 September 2012 [33] en route to its final destination, Ceres. Researchers continue to examine data collected by Dawn for additional insights into the formation and history of Vesta.
4 Vesta - NASA Science
Vesta was the fourth asteroid ever to be discovered. 4 Vesta’s discoverer, Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers, gave the honor of naming the new asteroid to German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, who had computed its orbit. Gauss named it Vesta after the goddess of the hearth and household in Roman mythology.
Asteroid 4 Vesta - TheSkyLive
2013年12月30日 · 4 Vesta is a large asteroid located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It was discovered on March 29, 1807 by German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers and is one of the largest asteroids in the solar system, with a …
Asteroid Vesta | Space Reference
Vesta is a dwarf planet orbiting between Mars and Jupiter in the main portion of the asteroid belt. NASA JPL has not classified Vesta as potentially hazardous because its orbit does not bring it close to Earth. Vesta orbits the sun every 1,330 days (3.64 years), coming as close as 2.15 AU and reaching as far as 2.57 AU from the sun.
4 Vesta (Asteroid) - Universe Guide
2024年10月20日 · Vesta orbital period, the time it takes to complete an orbit of the Sun, is 3.63 years. The orbital inclination of Vesta, the angle at which Vesta orbits to the orbital plane, is 7.14079 degrees. The orbital eccentricity is 0.0884019 of
(4) Vesta - 3D Asteroid Catalogue
2021年7月1日 · Vesta (DAWN HAMO, 256k poly) Please note that the models are in planetocentric coordinate system, with Z axis passing through north pole. Actual rotational axis may differ from planetocentric poles, especially for small irregular bodies.
The structure of the asteroid 4 Vesta as revealed by models of …
2013年2月13日 · Here we report three-dimensional simulations of Vesta’s global evolution under two overlapping planet-scale collisions. We closely reproduce its observed shape, and provide maps of impact...
Dawn - Asteroid & Comet Missions - NASA Jet Propulsion …
2007年9月27日 · Dawn enters orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta, becoming the first probe ever to enter orbit around an object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Dawn spends 14 months in orbit, fully imaging the surface, taking pictures in stereo, measuring the composition and temperature, determining the interior structure, and searching ...
4 Vesta (Asteroid) - In-The-Sky.org
From Virginia Beach , 4 Vesta is visible in the dawn sky, rising at 02:16 (EST) and reaching an altitude of 39° above the south-eastern horizon before fading from view as dawn breaks at around 05:54.
4 Vesta - NASA Planetary Data System - Planetary Science Institute
4 Vesta is the second most massive body in the main asteroid belt, accounting for almost nine percent of the total mass of all asteroids. Only dwarf planet Ceres is more massive in that region of rocky debris between Mars and Jupiter.