I cant wait for the pictures, even if they do airbrush out the starbases and ships.
It will be exciting to see the surface details of these far away worlds...
I imagine one day these will be way stations in a communications and transportation web of the solar system,
Youll be pullin off of the I 2045 direct lane to jupiter for a nights sleep and a shady rest at the ole Vesta Hacienda Spacetel.
If nobodys home already|

It's not widely talked about, but Vesta was actually considered a planet about 160 years ago. Just like Ceres (which is more widely known). So were a few other asteroids like Juno.

Whenever someone starts going crazy saying the ancient Babylonians knew of 10 planets I always wonder if a few of them weren't asteroids which would have been much easier to spot back then than Pluto or something as far out as "nibiru"

I look forward to pics of Ceres and Vesta though! Too bad Obama backed out of trying to send missions to land on asteroids...