Astronomers found a weird asteroid closer to the sun than any other

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Scientists have found three strange asteroids that orbit relatively close to the sun – one is the closest to the sun we’ve ever found, and another may someday hit Earth

Astronomers have found the closest asteroid to the sun ever seen, a relatively large rock that gets within 20 million kilometres of it – about 13 per cent the distance between the sun

and Earth. They have also spotted two otherThese asteroids are hard to find because in order to look for them, astronomers have to point telescopes towards the sun. That means there’s …

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