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Asteroid · Asteroid belt
4 Vesta
The belt’s second-most-massive body, orbited by Dawn in 2011–2012. No figure position: its orbital elements were not importable in this run, and none is invented.
- Mean distance
- 2.36 au
- Orbital period
- 3.63 y
- Diameter
- 525 km
- Mass
- 0 ×10²⁴ kg
Values: NASA Solar System Exploration · JPL small-body database (4 Vesta) — not network-verified in this run.
Listed without a figure position: JPL small-body orbital elements were not importable in this environment, and no position is invented.
Recorded encounters
- 2011 DawnDawn enters orbit around Vesta
An encounter sequence is the order the records give, not a flight path. Atlas holds no trajectory for these missions and draws none.
Data: NASA Planetary Fact Sheet · JPL approximate elements · JPL small-body database (1P/Halley).
Schematic · log-compressed · ranked discs · not an ephemeris — full statement →
Schematic view: distances are log-compressed (to true scale Neptune sits 30× Earth’s distance) and discs are ranked by size, not to scale. Positions computed from JPL mean orbital elements for today — an orientation good to a few degrees, not an ephemeris.
Data: NASA Planetary Fact Sheet · JPL approximate elements · JPL small-body database (1P/Halley).