Astronomers discover a 2-km asteroid orbiting closer to the sun than Venus

Astronomers have painstakingly built models of the asteroid population, and those models predict that there will be ~1 km-sized asteroids that orbit closer to the sun than Venus does. The problem is, nobody’s been able to find one—until now.


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Source: Phys.org