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Vesta was the virgin goddess of the hearth, home, and family in Roman mythology, analogous to Hestia in Greek mythology. ... Roman mythology can be considered as two parts. ... In Greek mythology, virginal Hestia is the goddess of the hearth, of the right ordering of domesticity and the family, who received the first offering at every sacrifice in the household, but had no public cult. ... An asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. ... 4 Vesta (ves-ta) is the third-largest asteroid in the Main belt, between 530 and 468 km in diameter. ... A sounding rocket is an instrument carrying suborbital rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during its flight. ... Rhythm and blues (or R & B) is a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Billboard magazine. ... Vesta Williams is an African-American R&B singer. ... Vesta is a Software configuration management system released by Compaq under the LGPL. Compaq claims that Vesta is a mature system and its the result of over 10 years of research and development at the Compaq/Digital Systems Research Center External links Vesta home page Vesta development site at... Compaq Computer Corporation was a company producing a wide range of computer products that was formed in 1982 and existed as a standalone entity until 2002 when it was merged with Hewlett-Packard. ... Vesta Rowing Club is based on the River Thames in Putney, London, United Kingdom. ... Rowing refers to several forms of physical activity: For rowing boats in general, see Watercraft rowing. ... Putney is a place in the London Borough of Wandsworth. ... The clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... Length 346 km Elevation of the source 110 m Average discharge entering Oxford: 17. ...
Vesta is the second-largest asteroid, and the largest in the Inner Main Belt, which lies interior to the Kirkwood gap at 2.50 AU.
Vesta is thought to consist of a metallic iron-nickel core, an overlying rocky olivine mantle, with a surface crust.
Vesta is currently one of only four identified Solar system bodies for which we have physical samples, the others being Mars, the Moon, and Earth itself.