Rocks from Vesta — Part 2: Howardites

Rocks from Vesta -- Part 2: Howardites
December 3, 2011
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/Hap McSween (University of Tennessee), and Andrew Beck and Tim McCoy (Smithsonian Institution)
PIA NumberPIA15137
Language
  • english

These images are of HED (howardite, eucrite and diogenite) meteorites are a large group of meteorites believed to originate from asteroid Vesta, a hypothesis that is consistent with current Dawn observations.