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Vesta: pieces of it land on Earth

Vesta, the asteroid that some meteorites found on Earth come from, with a peak about 22 km high. Facts with their sources.

The asteroid Vesta, grey, irregular and covered in craters, photographed by the Dawn spacecraft
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA · original

Curious facts

  1. Its rocks land on Earth

    A family of meteorites found on Earth, known as HED meteorites, comes from Vesta. 1

  2. A 22 km peak

    At its south pole, the giant crater Rheasilvia has a central peak about 22 km high, more than two and a half times the height of Everest. 2

Vesta in Orbit

In the game, Vesta is jump 7 of the route, 204 M km from Earth. Its logbook card says:

Logbook · Jump 7

Its Rheasilvia crater has a peak 2.5 times Everest

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Two steps with the Google account you use on Play: join the group, then download the test. Google Play can take a while, sometimes more than an hour, before it lets you download it; if you see “Item not found”, wait and try again.

What Orbit is like

Sources

  1. NASA, 4 Vesta. science.nasa.gov/solar-system/asteroids/4-vesta
  2. NASA, Dawn: Vesta. science.nasa.gov/mission/dawn/science/vesta

Checked between 8 and 11 October 2026.

Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA · original