Vesta
4 Vesta (A807 FA)
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📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 522.77 km
- Rotation period
- 5.3421 hours
- Albedo
- 0.4228
- Absolute magnitude H
- 3.25 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- V
- Spectral type (SMASS)
- V
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- MBA — Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 2.36 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.0902
- Inclination
- 7.14°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.15 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 2.57 AU
- Orbital period
- 1,330 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2460901.587
- Earth MOID
- 1.14 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 523 km across — 1.3 times the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 1,330 Earth days (about 3.6 years).
- Sunlight needs about 20 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 2.4 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.