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Monday, August 1, 2011
Vesta is groovy
The giant asteroid Vesta, as seen by the Dawn spacecraft, which has been orbiting Vesta since July 15. See the
Dawn website
for more information. This
movie of Vesta's rotation
is also interesting...evidently, Vesta is quite `groovy'.
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