SpazeAsteroid, V-type (basalt)
Vesta
A broken little planet with a crust, mantle and core. Meteorites from it land on Earth: about one in twenty that fall.
- Size
- 569.24 × 554.48 × 452.66 km
- Orbit
- 3.6 years
- Distance from Sun
- 2.2 to 2.6 AU
- Day
- 5.3 hours
- Gravity
- 0.026 g
- Reflects
- 42% of sunlight
- Visited by
- Dawn, 2011–2012
Can we live on Vesta?
Air: none to speak of. You’d live in sealed, pressurised habitats.
Gravity: 0.03 g. Someone who weighs 70 kg on Earth would weigh 2 kg there.
Ground: Basalt from ancient lava flows, pyroxene-rich.
Atmosphere
- None to speak of
Measured by Dawn