Asteroid
4 Vesta
4 Vesta is an asteroid in the main belt, between Mars and Jupiter.
The only asteroid bright enough to see without a telescope, from a dark place.
See it live
Where it is right now is on the live 3D map.
Key facts
- Catalogue
- 4 Vesta
- Diameter
- 525 km
- One lap of the Sun
- 4 years
- Closest to the Sun
- 2.15 au
How the map draws it
Drawn from a published model of 4 Vesta · its surface is the Dawn spacecraft’s black-and-white mosaic, tinted in a grey we chose; the shadows in its craters are the ones Dawn photographed and do not move with the Sun here.