Invaders from Vesta!

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Sep 18, 2011 7:58 PMNov 19, 2019 8:35 PM

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I did two related things yesterday: I wrote about the asteroid Vesta, and I went to the Denver Gem and Mineral show. How are those tied together? Glad you asked. In the last paragraph of the Vesta post, I said we have samples of Vesta that fell as meteorites. As it happens, they had a sample of one of those rocks at the show! Here it is:

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