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Eutropia AV-L-10

Eutropia AV-L-10
Photojournal: PIA19514
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published: September 28, 2013

This image of Eutropia AV-L-10, from the atlas of the giant asteroid Vesta, was created from images taken as NASA's Dawn mission flew around the object, also known as a protoplanet.

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