Fragments
Some small Solar System bodies are believed to be fragments of Vesta caused by collisions. The Vestian asteroids and HED meteorites are examples. The V-type asteroid 1929 Kollaa has been determined to have a composition akin to cumulate eucrite meteorites, indicating its origin deep within Vesta's crust.
Vesta is currently one of only six identified Solar System bodies for which we have physical samples, coming from a number of meteorites believed to be Vestan fragments. The other identified Solar System samples are from Earth itself, meteorites from Mars, and samples returned from Earth's Moon, the comet Wild 2, and the asteroid 25143 Itokawa.
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—Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (b. 1929)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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