Is Vesta the "Smallest Terrestrial Planet?"

Friday, December 9, 2011 - 23:40 in Astronomy & Space

NASA's Dawn probe, now orbiting Vesta in the asteroid belt, has found some surprising things on the giant asteroid--things that have prompted one researcher to declare Vesta "the smallest terrestrial planet."

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