Tag: Vesta

• Kaboom! A simulation shows how impacts shaped and nearly destroyed Vesta

  Vesta is the second-largest asteroid in the Solar System, and recent measurements by the Dawn mission showed that it’s actually a protoplanet: a piece of planet-like material left over from the early days of our Solar System. However, Dawn is significantly non-spherical and very battered. Most notably, it has two huge overlapping craters near its…

  Matthew R. Francis

  February 13, 2013

  Ars Technica, Writing for Other Sites

  asteroids, planet formation, Vesta