File:Vesta Rotation.gif

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Description	Vesta Rotation.gif English: A full rotation of the asteroid Vesta as seen from the Dawn spacecraft. Sixty-four images were extracted from the NASA video and animated. Vesta's actual rotation period is 5.342 hours.
Date	2 August 2011
Source	http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=1009
Author	NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA; Little Mountain 5

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