A Map of Asteroid Vesta (APOD 20 Aug 2006)

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:41 am

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060820.html
Would make a pretty marble!

I wish they showed Vesta in actual form.
Orin

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:09 pm

here's another view of Vesta. http://www.spaceimages.com/asteroidvesta.html
In my opinion; It doesn't look like a perfect Orb. Maybe 500 kilometers isn't quite large enough to bring Vesta to be called a planet. Or maybe better photographs would show Vesta's profile more clearly. How round is round enough to be called a planet?

Orin

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:30 pm

A video of Vesta!
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/1995 ... w_mpeg.mpg
With this video you have to look fast. Then replay it.
Orin

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 9:40 pm

You know this body is almost too small to be called a dwarf planet; yet it is pretty large to be called an asteroid. So how should Vesta be classified?

Is there a size department for asteroids?

Orin