Vesta in 3D — live position and orbit

The brightest asteroid, and the only one occasionally visible to the naked eye. A giant impact blasted away its south pole, and fragments of that crater rain down on Earth as some of our meteorites.

Vesta is shown at its real position, computed from NASA/JPL ephemeris data. The view opens on Vesta; you can travel in time, switch between the educational overview and the true-scale voyage, and compare it with every other body of the solar system.

Radius
262 km
Mass
2.59 × 10²⁰ kg
Surface gravity
0.25 m/s²
Mean temperature
-108 °C
Distance from the Sun
2.362 AU
Orbital period
1 326 days
Axial tilt
0.5°
Known moons
0

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