Dawn's Greatest Hits at Vesta

Vesta...Not quite a Dwarf Planet...

This and an upcoming Post, covers NASA's Dawn Space Probe... FIrst stop, Vesta. I hope you all enjoy and learn about one of our major Solar System objects... Some facts:

Vesta is one of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, with a mean diameter of 525 kilometres. It was discovered by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers on 29 March 1807 and is named after Vesta, the virgin goddess of home and hearth from Roman mythology. Wikipedia
Radius: 163.23 mi
Mass: 2.589 × 10^20 kg
Orbital period: 1,325 days
Discovered: March 29, 1807
Surface area: (8.66±0.2)×105 km2
Did you know: NASA's Dawn spacecraft entered orbit around Vesta on 16 July 2011 for a one-year exploration and left orbit on 5 September 2012 en route to its final destination, Ceres. wikipedia.org