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Related: About this forumDawn space probe's flyover of Vesta
From JPLnews on YouTube:
JPLnews also features a video of Vesta's shape and gravity, reconstructed from Dawn data:
I wonder if Vesta will now be upgraded to dwarf planet status, like Pluto and other Kuiper Belt objects and Ceres. Ceres was considered to be a planet for half a century after its discovery in 1801, before being downgraded to asteroid. It was upgraded to 'dwarf planet' status in 2006, about the time Pluto was being downgraded to 'dwarf' status.
Vesta isn't a perfect sphere; but neither is Kuiper Belt object Haumea. Haumea is more potato-shaped. Vesta is (roughly) a flattened sphere.
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Dawn space probe's flyover of Vesta (Original Post)
LongTomH
May 2012
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Odin2005
(53,521 posts)1. Something gave Vesta a huge boo-boo on her south pole.
maybe that impact is what broke off the class of meteorites that have been identified as pieces of Vesta
SemperEadem
(8,053 posts)2. wanna waste some time and blow your mind at the same time?
gordianot
(15,226 posts)3. A flattened sphere the perfect place for flat Earther Republicans.