Asteroid Vesta Proves to Be Dwarf Planet

Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 18:30 in Astronomy & Space

Vesta, the second-largest asteroid in our solar system, has planetlike features but fails the gravitational bully test for full status, says a report in Friday’s issue of the journal Science.

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