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unusual facts about Vesta



3103 Eger

4 Vesta is the parent body for Howardite, Eucrite, and Diogenite meteorites, while 3103 Eger is the parent body for Aubrite meteorites.

Astrolog

Astrolog computes the traditional planets, along with minor planetary objects such as Ceres, Juno and Vesta, and uranian objects such as Vulkanus and Russian Proserpina.

Brockley Nature Reserve

The entrance is on Vesta Road situated between Barriedale in Brockley and Sandbourne Road, Telegraph Hill.

Commodores 13

Vocals: Bill Champlin, David Cochrane, Harold Hudson, Melissa Manchester, Thomas McClary, Walter Orange, Phyllis St. James, Deborah Thomas, Tandia White, Vesta Williams

Hestia

The similarity of names between Hestia and Vesta is, however, misleading: "The relationship hestia-histie-Vesta cannot be explained in terms of Indo-European linguistics; borrowings from a third language must also be involved," scholar Walter Burkert has written.

Joshua Fiedler

When Josh was in High School he played with Vesta band mate Joshua Kosker in a band called Noisome.

Joshua Kosker

As of late 2008 Joshua has joined his former band mates Joshua Fiedler and Chad Alan Monticue taking over lead vocal duties for the band Vesta.

SS Arctic

She sank 27 September 1854, off Cape Race, Newfoundland, after colliding with the 250 ton French iron screw steamer SS Vesta in the fog.

Vesta Victoria

The painter Walter Sickert made a portrait of her performance Vesta Victoria at the Old Bedford, in about 1890.

Wiluna, Western Australia

The debris from this meteor became known as the Millbillillie meteorite and is understood to be actual pieces of the asteroid Vesta that had at some point been knocked off by a collision in the asteroid belt.

Wives aboard Noah's Ark

A cabalistic work that appeared in 1670, known as Comte de Gabalis, considered sacred in Rosicrucianism, maintains that the name of Noah's wife was Vesta.


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