Discovery of the First Known Asteroid Confined within the Orbit of Venus

We report on the discovery by the Zwicky Transient Facility of an asteroid orbiting entirely within the orbit of Venus, the first known example of this orbital class. The asteroid's perihelion is closer to the Sun than the aphelion of Mercury, and its diameter is estimated at about 1.8 km assum...

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Published in:Astrophysical journal. Letters 2022-08, Vol.935 (1), p.L6
Main Authors: Ip, Wing-Huen, Masci, Frank J., Ye, Quanzhi, Kramer, Emily A., Helou, George, Prince, Thomas A., Kulkarni, S. R., Dekany, Richard, Drake, Andrew, Graham, Matthew J., Groom, Steven, Laher, Russ R., Mahabal, Ashish A., Rusholme, Ben
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