Vesta (IMAGE)

University of Tokyo

Vesta

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Asteroid 4-Vesta is the second-largest body in the asteroid belt. Uranium-lead dating and other analytical methods tell researchers which meteorites come from Vesta and also when. © NASA CC0

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