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Vesta

[ves-tuh] / ˈvɛs tə /


NOUN
lares and penates
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Thursday, the department was notified of a service disruption affecting the Vesta System, a third-party public safety call-handling platform used to manage 911 calls within the Sheriff’s Department’s jurisdiction.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 20, 2026

Going all out, I once tried to go to a fancy-dress party as a Swan Vesta matchbox, wearing an elaborate cardboard contraption painted with a lot of time and effort.

From Slate Jul. 21, 2025

At 500km long, the star is about the same size as Vesta - the second-largest asteroid in our solar system.

From BBC Feb. 29, 2024

One, Project Vesta, in 2022 spread an alkaline mineral called olivine on a Long Island beach to test whether that would result in more alkaline waters as waves wash the material out to sea.

From Science Magazine Nov. 30, 2023

Vesta, the largest, is perhaps 400 miles in diameter, and if composed of substances similar to those which make up the earth, its mass may be perhaps one twenty-thousandth of the earth's mass.

From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David Peck Todd




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