Vesta
asteroid · the brightest asteroid in our sky
1.62 AU from Earth
The second-heaviest body in the asteroid belt, a squashed ball about 525 km across. A giant impact dug Rheasilvia, a crater about 500 km wide around its south pole, and left a mountain in the middle about 22 km high. NASA's Dawn orbited Vesta in 2011 and 2012.
- 2.49 AU from the Sun · 573 x 557 x 446 km
- Rheasilvia is 505 km wide; its central peak rises about 22 km
Numbers that change with time are from 10 November 2026.
open Vesta in the atlas ›- kind
- place in the Solar System · moon or small world
- distance
- 2.49 AU from the Sun
- size
- 525 km across
- orbits
- the Sun