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Dawn · Earth · Mars · 4 Vesta · 1 Ceres First image of asteroids (Ceres and Vesta) taken from Mars. The image was made by the Curiosity rover on 20 April 2014. Animation of Dawn 's trajectory around 4 Vesta from 15 July 2011 to 10 September 2012
Distance: 542 km (337 mi) [6] 4 Vesta orbiter; Orbital insertion ... for the planned 31 minutes before falling back to Earth. ... Dawn 's trajectory around 4 Vesta ...
Flybys of Earth are listed separately at List of Earth flybys. ... minimum distance 236 km 4 September 2024 ... 4 Vesta: Dawn: NASA: 16 July 2011 – 5 September 2012 ...
Unusual Earth-associated orbit 4179 Toutatis: 4.5×2.4×1.9: January 4, 1989: Closely approached Earth on September 29, 2004 4769 Castalia: 1.8×0.8: August 9, 1989: First asteroid to be radar-imaged in sufficient detail for 3D modeling [24] 5261 Eureka ~2–4: June 20, 1990: First Mars trojan (Lagrangian point L 5) discovered 11885 Summanus: 1 ...
The large rocky asteroid 4 Vesta has a ... orbiting the Sun trend towards lower values as the distance from the ... 4.3, and 3.9 times that of Earth, ...
The Hungaria asteroids lie closer to the Sun than the 4:1 resonance, but are protected from disruption by their high inclination. [57] When the asteroid belt was first formed, the temperatures at a distance of 2.7 AU from the Sun formed a "snow line" below the freezing point of water. Planetesimals formed beyond this radius were able to ...
The masses of the largest asteroids 2 Pallas, and 4 Vesta can also be obtained from perturbations of Mars. [6] While these perturbations are tiny, they can be accurately measured from radar ranging data from the Earth to spacecraft on the surface of Mars, such as the Viking landers.
The Vesta family (adj. Vestian; FIN: 401) is a family of asteroids. The cratering family is located in the inner asteroid belt in the vicinity of its namesake and principal body, 4 Vesta. It is one of the largest asteroid families with more than 15,000 known members and consists of mostly bright V-type asteroids, so-called "vestoids".