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Vesta
Asteroid 4
Vesta is the third largest asteroid known, after Ceres and Pallas. Its surface is much lighter than either of its larger siblings, though, making it the brightest of all the asteroids. At times, it approaches the verge of naked eye visibility, the only asteroid to do so.
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