Not two weeks ago, astronomers in Chile used a powerful, high-resolution camera to discover an asteroid that circles around the sun faster than any other. The orbit of the approximately 0.6-mile-wide ...
A newly discovered asteroid is sticking close to our sun — much closer than our own planet Earth. The asteroid, called 2021 PH27, completes an orbit around the sun every 113 days and comes within 12.4 ...
An illustration of 2021 PH27’s orbit, by Katherine Cain and Scott Sheppard, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science. It is the fastest orbiting known asteroid. CREDIT Katherine Cain and Scott ...
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