The accretion history of main belt asteroid Vesta is unknown. A new model shows Vesta may have accreted materials from the terrestrial planet region.
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Marchi, S. Vesta’s many ties to Earth. Nat Astron 5, 1214–1215 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-021-01546-2
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