Tag: Vesta

• “If you love a flower found on a star” (Science Advent 22)

  (Every day until December 25, I’m posting a science-related image or video and description.) Day 22 “Asteroid” is a general term for a lot of small bodies in the Solar System, from chunks of rock and rubble up to substantial, very planet-like objects. The second category includes Vesta, recently visited and studied by the Dawn…

  Matthew R. Francis

  December 22, 2013

  Astronomy, I Was an English Minor, Metablog

  Advent 2013, asteroids, literature, Little Prince, planetary science, Vesta