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Meteorites from Vesta

Meteorites from Vesta
Photojournal: PIA15605
Source: NASA/University of Tennessee
Published: May 10, 2012

This image shows three slices of a class of meteorites that fell to Earth that NASA's Dawn mission has confirmed as originating from the giant asteroid Vesta.

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