4 Vesta
id:
4-vesta-163-15548463
title:
4 Vesta
text:
Vesta is one of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, with a mean diameter of 525 kilometres (326 mi). It was discovered by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers on 29 March 1807 and is named after Vesta, the virgin goddess of home and hearth from Roman mythology. Vesta is thought to be the second-largest asteroid, both by mass and by volume, after the dwarf planet Ceres. Measurements give it a nominal volume only slightly larger than that of Pallas, but it is 25% to 30% mor
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Second largest asteroid of the main asteroid belt
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4_Vesta
date created:
2002-04-02T17:57:19Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T16:31:14Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q3030","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3030"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Vesta_in_natural_color.jpg","width":1220,"height":1220}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16