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Joel Kontinen
No asteroid has even been discovered this close to the sun. However, now astronomers have found an asteroid that gets to within 20 million kilometres of it.
They have also found
two asteroids as part of a hunt for rocks that are closer to the sun than Earth
and may sometime hit the Earth
Source:
Crane, Leah. 2022. Astronomers
found a weird asteroid closer to the sun than any other. New Scientist 5 October.