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Asteroid 800,000km2 fly near the Earth
The asteroid named 4 Vesta or Vesta is large and is bright enough to be observable from Earth despite being 170 million km away, Metro reported yesterday.
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Vesta is the newborn planet
The new discovery shows that Vesta is not an asteroid but is a newborn planet exactly from Ancient times, but not undergoing accretion and evolution to join the ranks of…
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Asteroid Vesta 'very similar to the Earth
Vesta - one of the largest asteroids in the solar system with a diameter of nearly 530 km - has many characteristics similar to rocky planets like Earth, discovered by a…
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Little planet with huge mountains
American astronomers believe that the planet 'Vesta has the second highest mountain in the solar system, higher than anything on Earth, according to UPI news agency.
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NASA explores the abandoned planet Vesta
It seems that there is no existence in space, but Vesta's first images are clearly visible in front of us.
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The NASA spacecraft first explored asteroids
On July 16, NASA's Dawn (Dawn) spacecraft arrived in Vesta, a 330-mile (531km) asteroid with an gravity equal to 0.022 times that of Earth's gravity.