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Description

A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the asteroid Vesta, taken in May 1996 through a 673 nm red filter when the asteroid was 175 million kilometers from Earth. The asymmetry of the asteroid and "nub" and the south pole is suggestive that it suffered a large impact event. The image was digitally restored to yield an effective scale of six miles per pixel.

Source

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/1997/27/image/d

Date

Image taken in May 1996, published 1997 September 4.

Author

Ben Zellner (Georgia Southern University) and NASA

Permission

Unless otherwise specifically stated, no claim to copyright is being asserted by STScI and it may be freely used as in the public domain in accordance with NASA's contract. [...] [1]


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