* Astronomy

Visions of Vesta

As members of the public view asteroid Vesta through the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society's 25-inch Dobsonian telescope at the Open Space on Aug. 27, Society Secretary Joe Brooks will be waving them over for a look through his microscope.
Brooks owns what some, including organisations that register meteorites, believe is a small piece of Vesta; a 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid located more than a hundred million miles from Earth.
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