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Only Asteroid Visible to Naked Eye in Sky This Week

Posted by michael on from the it's-a-bird-it's-a-plane dept.

chuckpeters writes "Vesta, the only asteroid that can be seen by the naked eye will be visible over the next week. Vesta was the fourth asteroid to be discovered and is the second largest. It is in the constellation Virgo and has just passed opposition. Vesta has very large, circular crater near the asteroid's south pole that is so deep it exposes the mantle. The asteroid appears to have differentiated into layers like the planets."

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  1. Northern Hemisphere only ? by OzPixel · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There's nothing at starryskies.com (yes, I read (skimmed) the article) to say where you can view this asteroid from. I wish these astronomy sites would remember that it's possible to view the night sky from Down Under too ...

    David (in Melbourne).