NASA has released a treasure trove of data gathered about the asteroid Vesta. Vesta, an asteroid that is 330 miles across, is the second largest asteroid in our solar system. Vesta is considered a proto-planet, meaning that it formed early in the history of the solar system and could have formed a planet if it had been able to gather more stellar dust, the material that was gathered by gravity to form planets like earth. By examining the data from the probe, scientists hope to learn more about how planets form.
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