These images are of HED howardite, eucrite and diogenite meteorites, a large group of meteorites believed to originate from asteroid Vesta, a hypothesis that is consistent with current Dawn observations.
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Title: Rocks from Vesta -- Part 1: Eucrites
Creator: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Hap McSween University of Tennessee, and Andrew Beck and Tim McCoy Smithsonian Institution
Date Created: 2011-12-02
Rights: JPL
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