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Solar System -- Asteroids

A Lava-Covered Asteroid
4 Vesta: An Asteroid covered with Lava
  • The fourth asteroid to be discovered, it was first viewed in 1807.
  • Among the 100 or more largest asteroids, Vesta is the only one with a surface of lava-rock, as revealed by spectral observations.
  • Vesta is the third-larges asteroid at 500 kilometers (311 miles) across.
  • It appears covered with basaltic rock.