Vesta
Second largest asteroid of the main asteroid belt
Also known as asteroid Vesta
- Mass
- 259,076 exagram
- Diameter
- 525.4 km
- , 522.77 km
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Sources- 1.Stated in JPL Small-Body Databasessd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=20000004Retrieved 2025-10-14
- Orbital period
- 1,325.54 days
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Sources- 1.Stated in JPL Small-Body Databasessd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=20000004Retrieved 2025-10-14
- 1,325.54 days
- Semi-major axis
- 2.3615 AU
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Sources- 1.Stated in JPL Small-Body Databasessd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=20000004Retrieved 2025-10-14
- 2.3615 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.09017
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Sources- 1.Stated in JPL Small-Body Databasessd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=20000004Retrieved 2025-10-14
- 0.09017
- Discovered by
- Discovered
- March 29, 1807
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Sources- 1.Stated in JPL Small-Body Databasessd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=20000004Retrieved 2023-10-16
- March 29, 1807
- Minor planet group
- asteroid belt
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Sources- 1.Stated in JPL Small-Body Databasessd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=20000004Retrieved 2023-10-16
- asteroid belt
Overview
All data
78 statements · 46% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Follows
- 3 Juno
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Sources- 1.“Minor Planet Names: Alphabetical List”minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/MPNames.html
- 3 Juno
- Followed by
- 5 Astraea
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Sources- 1.“Minor Planet Names: Alphabetical List”minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/MPNames.html
- 5 Astraea
- Named after
- Vesta
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Sources- 1.“Minor Planet Names: Alphabetical List”minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/MPNames.html
- 2.Stated in Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (Sixth Revised and Enlarged Edition)
- Vesta
- Unicode character
- ⚶
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Sources- 1.“The Unicode Standard, Version 6.3: Miscellaneous Symbols”unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2600.pdfRetrieved 2014-01-21
- ⚶
- Asteroid spectral type
- V-type asteroid asteroid taxonomy: Tholen classification, SMASS classification
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Sources- 1.Stated in JPL Small-Body Databasessd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=20000004Retrieved 2023-10-16
- V-type asteroid asteroid taxonomy: Tholen classification, SMASS classification
- Inclination
- 5.56 degree relative to: invariable plane
- 7.1441 degree epoch: November 21, 2025
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Sources- 1.Stated in JPL Small-Body Databasessd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=20000004Retrieved 2025-10-14
- Length
- 572.6 km
- Width
- 557.2 km
- Height
- 446.4 km
- Area
- 866,000 km²
- Volume as quantity
- 74.6M cubic kilometre
- Radius
- 262.7 km applies to part: geometric mean
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.1 astronomical filter: V band
- Density
- 3.456 g/cm³
- 3.46 g/cm³
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Sources- 1.Stated in JPL Small-Body Databasessd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=20000004Retrieved 2025-10-14
- Albedo
- 0.4228 criterion used: geometric albedo
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Sources- 1.Stated in JPL Small-Body Databasessd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=20000004Retrieved 2023-10-16
- 0.4228 criterion used: geometric albedo
- Surface gravity
- 0.22 metre per square second
- Provisional designation
- A807 FA
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Sources- 1.Stated in JPL Small-Body Databasessd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=20000004Retrieved 2023-10-16
- A807 FA
- Absolute magnitude
- 3.25
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Sources- 1.Stated in JPL Small-Body Databasessd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=20000004Retrieved 2024-11-04
- 3.25
- Rotation period
- 5.3421 h
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Sources- 1.Stated in JPL Small-Body Databasessd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=20000004Retrieved 2025-10-14
- 5.3421 h
- Periapsis
- 2.1486 AU epoch: November 21, 2025
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Sources- 1.Stated in JPL Small-Body Databasessd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=20000004Retrieved 2025-10-14
- 2.1486 AU epoch: November 21, 2025
- Apoapsis
- 2.5745 AU epoch: November 21, 2025
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Sources- 1.Stated in JPL Small-Body Databasessd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=20000004Retrieved 2025-10-14
- 2.5745 AU epoch: November 21, 2025
- Longitude of ascending node
- 103.7023 degree epoch: November 21, 2025
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Sources- 1.Stated in JPL Small-Body Databasessd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=20000004Retrieved 2025-10-14
- 103.7023 degree epoch: November 21, 2025
- Argument of periapsis
- 151.5371 degree epoch: November 21, 2025
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Sources- 1.Stated in JPL Small-Body Databasessd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=20000004Retrieved 2025-10-14
- 151.5371 degree epoch: November 21, 2025
- Mean anomaly
- 26.8097 degree epoch: November 21, 2025
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Sources- 1.Stated in JPL Small-Body Databasessd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=20000004Retrieved 2025-10-14
- 26.8097 degree epoch: November 21, 2025
- Time of periapsis
- 2,460,902 Julian day epoch: November 21, 2025
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Sources- 1.Stated in JPL Small-Body Databasessd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=20000004Retrieved 2025-10-14
- 2,460,902 Julian day epoch: November 21, 2025
- Epoch
- November 21, 2025
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Sources- 1.Stated in JPL Small-Body Databasessd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=20000004Retrieved 2025-10-14
- November 21, 2025
On other databases
28 identifiers linking Vesta across the web's reference databases
- AccessScience ID757579
- BabelNet ID00079867n
- Bing entity ID974df7d2-7cfb-a7ef-e908-3b3ce220a270
- BNCF Thesaurus ID75046
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online IDvesta
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplace/Vesta-asteroid
- Fandom article IDthesolarsystem:Vesta
- FAST ID1710149
- Freebase ID/m/0cpzb
- GND ID4707455-3
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDVesta_-_astronomi
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)1910644
- Interlingual Index IDi86390
- J9U entity ID987007544525305171
- JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID20000004
- Lex IDVesta_-_asteroide
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh2001006609
- Mindat locality ID294256
- Minor Planet Center body ID4
- NAIF ID2000004
- Namuwiki ID베스타(소행성)
- NE.se IDvesta-(småplanet)
- ScienceDirect topic IDearth-and-planetary-sciences/vesta-asteroid
- Slovak National Library (VIAF) IDvtls012131119
- SpaceReference.org celestial object IDasteroid/4-vesta-a807-fa
- VIAF cluster ID131724020
- Wolfram Language entity codeEntity["MinorPlanet", "Vesta"]
- Yale LUX IDplace/20df1080-e242-4e45-be15-e9155409c780