in pagan worship, the same with Cybele. See CYBELE.
VESTA the Younger, in pagan worship, the goddess of Fire, was the daughter of Saturn and Cybele, and the sister of Ceres. She was so much in love with chastity, that on Jupiter's ascending the throne and offering to grant whatever she asked, she only desired the preservation of her virginity, which she obtained.—Vesta was not represented in her temple by any image.
one of the lately discovered planets, of which the elements have been determined by Dr Gauls in a communication to the Royal Society of Gottingen.
Elements of Vesta.
<table> <tr> <th>Epoch of the longitude, meridian of Seeburg</th> <td>108° 19' 34.7"</td> </tr> <tr> <th>Diurnal tropical motion</th> <td>770" 85' 84</td> </tr> <tr> <th>Annual</th> <td>78 9 23</td> </tr> <tr> <th>Aphelion, 1806</th> <td>326 37 59</td> </tr> <tr> <th>Annual motion</th> <td>+ 2 1.2</td> </tr> <tr> <th>Ascending node, 1806</th> <td>80 53 23</td> </tr> <tr> <th>Annual motion</th> <td>+ 1.5</td> </tr> <tr> <th>Inclination of the orbit, 1806</th> <td>10 37 34</td> </tr> <tr> <th>Annual diminution</th> <td>0.4</td> </tr> <tr> <th>Eccentricity, 1806</th> <td>0.0783486</td> </tr> <tr> <th>Annual diminution</th> <td>0.0000058</td> </tr> <tr> <th>Log. of the greater semiaxis</th> <td>0.4420728</td> </tr> </table>
Elements of Ceres by the same.
<table> <tr> <th>Epoch of the mean longitude at Bremen, March 29, 1807, at 12 o'clock, mean time</th> <td>193° 8' 4.6"*</td> <th>In the Mag. Encyclop. it is 191° 9' 54".</th> </tr> <tr> <th>Longitude of its perihelion</th> <td>249 7 41</td> <th>Ibid.</th> </tr> <tr> <th>aphelion</th> <td>69 57 52</td> <th></th> </tr> <tr> <th>ascending node on the ecliptic</th> <td>103 8 36</td> <th></th> </tr> <tr> <th>Inclination of its orbit</th> <td>7 5 49.5†</td> <th>Ibid.</th> </tr> <tr> <th>Diurnal tropical motion</th> <td>0 16 18.91</td> <th>7° 8' 34".</th> </tr> <tr> <th>Logarithm of the mean distance</th> <td>0.3728428</td> <th></th> </tr> <tr> <th>Eccentricity</th> <td>0.097595</td> <th></th> </tr> <tr> <th>Greatest distance from the sun</th> <td>25.625</td> <th></th> </tr> <tr> <th>Least</th> <td>21.514</td> <th></th> </tr> <tr> <th>Period of its revolution</th> <td>1321 days, 12 hours.</td> <th></th> </tr> </table>