Vesta

Summary

Vesta is an asteroid^[1]. Vesta ranks in the top 0.024% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,699 views/month, #1 of 4,107).^[2]

Key Facts

• Vesta is credited with the discovery of Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers^[3].
• Vesta's video is recorded as Vesta Rotation.gif^[4].
• Vesta's image is recorded as Dawn-image-070911.jpg^[5].
• Vesta's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[6].
• Vesta's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Bremen^[7].
• Vesta is named after Vesta^[8].
• Vesta's follows is recorded as 3 Juno^[9].
• Vesta's followed by is recorded as 5 Astraea^[10].
• Vesta's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[11].
• Vesta's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 131724020^[12].
• Vesta's GND ID is recorded as 4707455-3^[13].
• Vesta's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2001006609^[14].
• Vesta's astronomic symbol image is recorded as Vesta symbol.svg^[15].
• Vesta's Commons category is recorded as Vesta (asteroid)^[16].
• Vesta's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[17].
• Vesta's Unicode character is recorded as ⚶^[18].
• Vesta's provisional designation is recorded as A807 FA^[19].
• Vesta's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 75046^[20].
• Vesta's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1807-03-29T00:00:00Z^[21].
• Vesta's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0cpzb^[22].
• Vesta's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20000004^[23].
• Vesta's asteroid spectral type is recorded as V-type asteroid^[24].
• Vesta's asteroid family is recorded as Vesta family^[25].
• Vesta's significant event is recorded as naming^[26].
• Vesta's topic's main category is recorded as Category:4 Vesta^[27].

Body

Physical Characteristics

Vesta's area is recorded as {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+866000'}^[28]. Vesta's length is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+572.6'}^[29].

Designation and Status

Vesta's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[6].

History and Context

Vesta is named after Vesta^[8].

Cultural Significance

Things named for Vesta include Vesta family^[30], an asteroid family^[31] and Vesta Nunataks^[32], a nunatak^[33].

Why It Matters

Vesta ranks in the top 0.024% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,699 views/month, #1 of 4,107).^[2] Vesta has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[34] Vesta is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[35]

Entities named for Vesta include Vesta family^[30], an asteroid family^[31] and Vesta Nunataks^[32], a nunatak^[33].