Vesta
Posted in Astronomy at 13:00 on 21 July 2011
This was Astronomy Picture of the Day‘s picture on 19/7/11.
It’s the asteroid Vesta and on its own makes up over 10% of the asteroid belt by mass but is still only the second largest of those minor planets (after Ceres.)
The Dawn spacecraft is the first to get close to Vesta. It’s going to go on to visit Ceres in 2015.
Tags: asteroid belt, Astronomy, Astronomy Picture of the Day, Vesta
