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Vesta comparison table

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asteroid celestial body Also called planetoids or minor planets, the asteroids are tiny planets most of which orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. The largest - and the first discovered - is Ceres, with a diameter of 1,003 km. It is estimated that there may altogether be no fewer than 40000. A few have very elliptical orbits and cross the orbits of several other (major) planets. One or two even have their own satellites (moons).

Vesta 5^h20^m31^s.665 asteroid P = 1325 days 500 km 1807 i = 7°.1 5.5 (at mean opposition) a = 2.361 AU 0.24 An asteroid in diameter. It is the brightest of all minor planets, at times approaching naked-eye visibility. Its spectrum can also be interpreted to mean a rotation period of 10^h40^m58^s.84. e = 0.09 Olbers

Subject	has rotation period	is a kind of	is an instance of	has orbital period	has diameter	has discovery date	has inclination	has visual magnitude	has semi-major axi	has albedo	has definition	has eccentricity	has discoverer
asteroid		celestial body									Also called planetoids or minor planets, the asteroids are tiny planets most of which orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. The largest - and the first discovered - is Ceres, with a diameter of 1,003 km. It is estimated that there may altogether be no fewer than 40000. A few have very elliptical orbits and cross the orbits of several other (major) planets. One or two even have their own satellites (moons).
Vesta	5^h20^m31^s.665		asteroid	P = 1325 days	500 km	1807	i = 7°.1	5.5 (at mean opposition)	a = 2.361 AU	0.24	An asteroid in diameter. It is the brightest of all minor planets, at times approaching naked-eye visibility. Its spectrum can also be interpreted to mean a rotation period of 10^h40^m58^s.84.	e = 0.09	Olbers

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