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NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on July 9, 2011. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA.

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1. True or False, Vesta is a gaseous astronomical object in orbit around the Moon.

TRUE
FALSE

2. The first astronomical X-ray source in the asteroid belt is likely to be which of the following?

Vesta
Mars
Jupiter
Ceres
Titan

3. True or False, Vesta is as ice covered as Ganymede.

TRUE
FALSE

4. There is anecdotal evidence that people had seen the Galilean moons of Jupiter before telescopes were invented. Of similar magnitude, Uranus and

had most probably been seen but could not be recognized as wanderers because they appear so faint even at maximum brightness that their motion could not be detected.

5. Yes or No, Vesta has minor planet designation 3 Vesta.

Yes
No

6. Chemistry phenomena associated with Vesta are

anorthite
pigeonite
silicates
pressure
helium
plastic

7. Yes or No, Diogenite is contained in diogenite meteorites.

Yes
No

8. Complete the text:

Vesta may have been 4.5 mya and it is believed to once have volcanic activity.

9. Yes or No, Debris from Vesta has fallen to Earth as howardite–eucrite–diogenite (HED) meteorites.

Yes
No

10. Which of the following images is of Vesta.

Vesta-SouthPole.png
20151022 ceres rc3 urvara machi f537.png

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