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Description	English: A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the asteroid Vesta, taken in May 1996 through a 673 nm red filter when the asteroid was 175 million kilometers from Earth. The asymmetry of the asteroid and "nub" and the south pole is suggestive that it suffered a large impact event. The image was digitally restored to yield an effective scale of six miles per pixel. 日本語: 1996年5月にHSTが撮影したベスタ Português: Asteróide 4 Vesta
Source	http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/1997/27/image/d
Date	Image taken in May 1996, published 1997 September 4.
Author	Ben Zellner (Georgia Southern University) and NASA
Permission	Unless otherwise specifically stated, no claim to copyright is being asserted by STScI and it may be freely used as in the public domain in accordance with NASA's contract. [...]

This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA and the European Space Agency. Hubble material is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that NASA and ESA is credited as the source of the material. The material was created for NASA by STScI under Contract NAS5-26555 and for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre. or .

External Links

• Vesta at ESA/Hubble

File links

• 4 Vesta
• List of solar system objects by mass
• List of solar system objects by radius
• Talk:Timeline of discovery of solar system planets and their natural satellites
• Definition of planet
• Marooned Off Vesta
• Talk:Asymmetry
• Talk:Definition of planet/definition of planet archive 4
• Portal:Astronomy/Picture/Week 9 2007