Vesta

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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

The Hicockolorum, or Patent Fuel, warranted never to smoke, smell, decrease in bulk, or throw out dangerous gases, and equally adapted for Calorific, Church, Vesta, Air-tight, Registering, Cooking, and all manner of stoves.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various