Vesta family

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Mapping the Vesta family

The Vesta family is a family of asteroids found in the inner asteroid belt near the namesake and main body, (4) Vesta . It is one of the largest asteroid families with more than 15,000 known asteroids. It also consists of mainly bright V-asteroids, so-called "vestoids".

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