Scientists found an asteroid that is closer to the sun than others

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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.