Scientists have discovered three unusual asteroids that orbit comparatively near the solar – one is the closest to the solar we’ve ever discovered, and one other might sometime hit Earth
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5 October 2022
Artist’s impression of an asteroid close to the solar Copyright (c) 2021 Elena11/Shutterstock
Astronomers have discovered the closest asteroid to the solar ever seen, a comparatively massive rock that will get inside 20 million kilometres of it – about 13 per cent the gap between the solar and Earth. They’ve additionally noticed two different unusual asteroids as a part of a hunt for the uncommon rocks that orbit nearer to the solar than Earth.
These asteroids are laborious to seek out as a result of as a way to search for them, astronomers need to level telescopes in direction of the solar. Meaning there’s …