Vesta

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Vesta
Astrographical information
System	Sol
Physical information
Diameter	525.4±0.2 km (mean diameter)
Temperature	min: 85 K (−188 °C) max: 270 K (−3 °C)

Vesta (designation 4 Vesta) is one of the largest asteroids in the Asteroid Belt, and the second-most-massive after Ceres. It hosts one of the largest settlements in the outer planets. At some time during the UN-MCR Cold War, Vesta was the site of the Vesta Blockade, a confrontation between the UN and MCR that would delay the Martian terraforming efforts for over a century.

History

Free Navy Conflict

During the Consolidated Fleet Offensive, Vesta is successfully captured from Inaros' forces.

Trivia

• The ancient Roman goddess of the hearth, Vesta, is worshiped in a temple containing an altar on which a sacred fire was kept burning by the vestal virgins: identified with the original Greek goddess Hestia.

See also

• Ceres
• Pallas
• Iapetus
• Ganymede
• Callisto

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