An asteroid discovered over 200 years ago which is roughly the size of Germany would have catastrophic consequences for life on Earth if it ever hit the planet.

May 2025 is a prime time to explore the night sky, with Vesta taking center stage. Use our sky map to navigate the stars and planets, and don't miss the chance to observe this giant asteroid. Share ...

These were meteorites that came from Vesta (the second largest asteroid in the Solar System), the Moon, and Mars, and are known as achondrites. "Meteorites fall into two broad categories ...

Most of them have a diameter of between 20 to 100 kilometres, a few up to 500 kilometres, but none are larger than Ceres: with its 1000- kilometre diameter, it makes up more than a third of the total ...

Vesta is the Roman goddess of the hearth and home. photoguns – stock.adobe.com Named for the virgin Roman goddess of hearth, home and family whose symbol was the perpetual flame, the asteroid ...

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This is an electron microscope image of a polished cross section of chrome spinel from a fossil micrometeorite that scientists believe comes from the asteroid 4 Vesta.

and Vesta) survived mostly intact. So, while several of these worlds may have been destroyed billions of years ago, pieces of them still survive—on Earth, on other planets, or spread throughout the ...