and was designed by Gauss. In Gauss's conception, now obsolete, this was drawn . His form was encoded in Unicode 17.0 as U+1F777 .The asteroid symbols were gradually retired from astronomical use after 1852, but the symbols for the first four asteroids were resurrected for astrology in the 1970s. The abbreviated modern astrological variant of the Vesta symbol is .

After the discovery of Vesta, no further objects were discovered for 38 years, and during this time the Solar System was thought to have