Rocks from Vesta — Part 1: Eucrites
![Rocks from Vesta -- Part 1: Eucrites](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/PIA15136_hires.jpg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
December 2, 2011
Credit | NASA/JPL-Caltech/Hap McSween (University of Tennessee), and Andrew Beck and Tim McCoy (Smithsonian Institution) |
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PIA Number | PIA15136 |
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These images are of HED (howardite, eucrite and diogenite) meteorites, a large group of meteorites believed to originate from asteroid Vesta, a hypothesis that is consistent with current Dawn observations.