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Amor asteroid

Index Amor asteroid

The Amor asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after the asteroid 1221 Amor. [1]

98 relations: Alinda asteroid, Apollo asteroid, Apsis, Arjuna asteroid, Asteroid belt, Asteroid capture, Astronomical unit, Aten asteroid, Atira asteroid, Carl Gustav Witt, Damocloid, Deimos (moon), Earth, Eugène Joseph Delporte, Hans-Emil Schuster, Johann Palisa, List of Amor asteroid records, List of Jupiter-crossing minor planets, List of Mars-crossing minor planets, List of minor planets: 11001–12000, List of minor planets: 13001–14000, List of minor planets: 15001–16000, List of minor planets: 154001–155000, List of minor planets: 16001–17000, List of minor planets: 162001–163000, List of minor planets: 164001–165000, List of minor planets: 18001–19000, List of minor planets: 189001–190000, List of minor planets: 20001–21000, List of minor planets: 3001–4000, List of minor planets: 4001–5000, List of minor planets: 5001–6000, List of minor planets: 6001–7000, List of minor planets: 7001–8000, List of minor planets: 8001–9000, List of minor planets: 9001–10000, List of minor planets: 96001–97000, List of Saturn-crossing minor planets, Mars, Mars trojan, Max Wolf, Mercury (planet), Minor planet designation, NEAR Shoemaker, Near-Earth object, Orbit, Phobos (moon), Potentially hazardous object, Solar System, Sun, ..., Venus, Walter Baade, 1036 Ganymed, 1221 Amor, 1580 Betulia, 15817 Lucianotesi, 1627 Ivar, 1915 Quetzálcoatl, 1916 Boreas, 1917 Cuyo, 1943 Anteros, 1980 Tezcatlipoca, 2059 Baboquivari, 2061 Anza, 21088 Chelyabinsk, 2202 Pele, 2368 Beltrovata, 2608 Seneca, 3102 Krok, 3122 Florence, 3199 Nefertiti, 3288 Seleucus, 3352 McAuliffe, 3551 Verenia, 3552 Don Quixote, 3553 Mera, 3671 Dionysus, 3691 Bede, 3757 Anagolay, 3908 Nyx, 3988 Huma, 4055 Magellan, 433 Eros, 4401 Aditi, 4947 Ninkasi, 4954 Eric, 4957 Brucemurray, 5370 Taranis, 5653 Camarillo, 5751 Zao, 65803 Didymos, 7088 Ishtar, 719 Albert, 7336 Saunders, 8013 Gordonmoore, 8034 Akka, 887 Alinda, 9950 ESA. Expand index (48 more) »

Alinda asteroid

The Alinda asteroids are a dynamical group of asteroids with a semi-major axis of about 2.5 AU and an orbital eccentricity approximately between 0.4 and 0.65.

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Apollo asteroid

The Apollo asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after 1862 Apollo, discovered by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth in the 1930s.

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Apsis

An apsis (ἁψίς; plural apsides, Greek: ἁψῖδες) is an extreme point in the orbit of an object.

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Arjuna asteroid

The Arjuna asteroids (also known as "Arjunas") are a dynamical group of asteroids in the Solar System.

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Asteroid belt

The asteroid belt is the circumstellar disc in the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter.

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Asteroid capture

Asteroid capture is the entering by an asteroid into an orbit around a larger planetary body.

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Astronomical unit

The astronomical unit (symbol: au, ua, or AU) is a unit of length, roughly the distance from Earth to the Sun.

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Aten asteroid

The Aten asteroids are a dynamical group of asteroids whose orbits bring them into proximity with Earth.

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Atira asteroid

Atira asteroids or Apohele asteroids, also known as Interior-Earth Objects (IEOs), are asteroids, whose orbits are entirely confined within Earth's orbit, that is, their orbit has an aphelion (farthest point from the Sun) smaller than Earth's perihelion (nearest point to the Sun), which is 0.983 astronomical units (AU).

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Carl Gustav Witt

Carl Gustav Witt (October 29, 1866 – January 3, 1946) was a German astronomer and discover of two asteroids who worked at the Berlin Urania Observatory, a popular observatory of the Urania astronomical association of Berlin.

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Damocloid

Damocloids are a class of minor planets such as 5335 Damocles and 1996 PW that have Halley-family or long-period highly eccentric orbits typical of periodic comets such as Halley's Comet, but without showing a cometary coma or tail.

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Deimos (moon)

Deimos (systematic designation: Mars II) is the smaller and outer of the two natural satellites of the planet Mars, the other being Phobos.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Eugène Joseph Delporte

Eugène Joseph Delporte (10 January 1882 – 19 October 1955) was a Belgian astronomer born in Genappe.

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Hans-Emil Schuster

Hans-Emil Schuster (born September 19, 1934 in Hamburg) is a German astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets, who retired in October 1991.

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Johann Palisa

Johann Palisa (December 6, 1848 – May 2, 1925) was an Austrian astronomer, born in Troppau in Austrian Silesia (now in the Czech Republic).

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List of Amor asteroid records

The following is a list of current records for Amor asteroids.

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List of Jupiter-crossing minor planets

A Jupiter-crosser is a minor planet whose orbit crosses that of Jupiter.

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List of Mars-crossing minor planets

A Mars-crossing asteroid (MCA, also Mars-crosser, MC) is an asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Mars.

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List of minor planets: 11001–12000

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List of minor planets: 13001–14000

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List of minor planets: 15001–16000

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List of minor planets: 154001–155000

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List of minor planets: 16001–17000

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List of minor planets: 162001–163000

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List of minor planets: 164001–165000

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List of minor planets: 18001–19000

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List of minor planets: 189001–190000

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List of minor planets: 20001–21000

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List of minor planets: 3001–4000

#d6d6d6 | 3089 Oujianquan || || December 3, 1981 || Nanking || Purple Mountain Obs.

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#C2FFFF | 4063 Euforbo || || February 1, 1989 || Bologna || San Vittore Obs.

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List of minor planets: 5001–6000

#fefefe | 5390 Huichiming || || December 19, 1981 || Nanking || Purple Mountain Obs.

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List of minor planets: 6001–7000

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List of minor planets: 7001–8000

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List of minor planets: 8001–9000

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List of minor planets: 9001–10000

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List of minor planets: 96001–97000

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List of Saturn-crossing minor planets

A Saturn-crosser is a minor planet whose orbit crosses that of Saturn.

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Mars

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System after Mercury.

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Mars trojan

The Mars trojans are a group of objects that share the orbit of the planet Mars around the Sun.

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Max Wolf

Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius "Max" Wolf (June 21, 1863 – October 3, 1932) was a German astronomer and a pioneer in the field of astrophotography.

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Mercury (planet)

Mercury is the smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System.

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Minor planet designation

A formal minor planet designation is, in its final form, a number–name combination given to a minor planet (asteroid, centaur, trans-Neptunian object and dwarf planet but not comet).

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NEAR Shoemaker

The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous – Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker), renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker, was a robotic space probe designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA to study the near-Earth asteroid Eros from close orbit over a period of a year.

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Near-Earth object

A near-Earth object (NEO) is any small Solar System body whose orbit can bring it into proximity with Earth.

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Orbit

In physics, an orbit is the gravitationally curved trajectory of an object, such as the trajectory of a planet around a star or a natural satellite around a planet.

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Phobos (moon)

Phobos (systematic designation) is the innermost and larger of the two natural satellites of Mars, the other being Deimos.

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Potentially hazardous object

A potentially hazardous object (PHO) is a near-Earth object – either an asteroid or a comet – with an orbit that can make exceptionally close approaches to the Earth and large enough to cause significant regional damage in the event of impact.

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Solar System

The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.

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Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.

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Venus

Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days.

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Walter Baade

Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade (March 24, 1893 – June 25, 1960) was a German astronomer who worked in the United States from 1931 to 1959.

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1036 Ganymed

1036 Ganymed is the largest near-Earth asteroid, at approximately 33 kilometers in diameter.

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1221 Amor

1221 Amor is the namesake of the Amor asteroids, a group of near-Earth asteroids whose orbits range between those of Earth and Mars.

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1580 Betulia

1580 Betulia, provisional designation, is an eccentric, carbonaceous asteroid, classified as near-Earth object of the Amor group, approximately 4.2 kilometers in diameter.

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15817 Lucianotesi

15817 Lucianotesi (or 1994 QC) is an Amor asteroid discovered on August 28, 1994, by A. Boattini and M. Tombelli at San Marcello Pistoiese.

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1627 Ivar

1627 Ivar, provisional designation, is a stony asteroid and near-Earth object of the Amor group, approximately 9 kilometers in diameter.

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1915 Quetzálcoatl

1915 Quetzálcoatl, provisional designation, is a very eccentric, stony asteroid classified as near-Earth object, about half a kilometer in diameter.

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1916 Boreas

1916 Boreas, provisional designation, is an eccentric, stony asteroid and near-Earth object of the Amor group, approximately 3 kilometers in diameter.

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1917 Cuyo

1917 Cuyo, provisional designation, is an stony asteroid and near-Earth object of the Amor group, approximately 5.7 kilometers in diameter.

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1943 Anteros

1943 Anteros, provisional designation, is a spheroidal, rare-type asteroid and near-Earth object of the Amor group, approximately 2 kilometers in diameter.

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1980 Tezcatlipoca

1980 Tezcatlipoca, provisional designation, is an eccentric, stony asteroid and near-Earth object of the Amor group, approximately 6 kilometers in diameter.

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2059 Baboquivari

2059 Baboquivari, provisional designation, is an asteroid classified as near-Earth object of the Amor group, approximately 1.9 kilometers in diameter.

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2061 Anza

2061 Anza, provisional designation, is an eccentric asteroid of the Amor group, a subtype of near-Earth objects, estimated to measure approximately 2.7 kilometers in diameter.

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21088 Chelyabinsk

21088 Chelyabinsk, provisional designation, is a stony asteroid and near-Earth object of the Amor group, approximately 4 kilometers in diameter.

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2202 Pele

2202 Pele, provisional designation, is an eccentric asteroid and near-Earth object of the Amor group, approximately 1–2 kilometers in diameter.

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2368 Beltrovata

2368 Beltrovata, provisional designation, is an eccentric stony asteroid and near-Earth object of the Amor group, approximately 2.7 kilometers in diameter.

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2608 Seneca

2608 Seneca, provisional designation, is a stony asteroid and sub-kilometer near-Earth object of the Amor group, approximately 0.9 kilometers in diameter.

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3102 Krok

3102 Krok, provisional designation, is a rare-type asteroid and slow rotator, classified as a near-Earth object of the Amor group, that measures approximately 1.5 kilometers in diameter.

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3122 Florence

3122 Florence is a stony trinary asteroid of the Amor group.

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3199 Nefertiti

3199 Nefertiti, provisional designation, is a rare-type asteroid, classified as near-Earth object of the Amor group of asteroids, approximately 2.2 kilometers in diameter.

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3288 Seleucus

3288 Seleucus, provisional designation, is a rare-type stony asteroid, classified as near-Earth object of the Amor group of asteroids, approximately 2.5 kilometers in diameter.

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3352 McAuliffe

3352 McAuliffe, provisional designation, is a rare-type asteroid and suspected binary system, classified as near-Earth object of the Amor group, approximately 2 kilometers in diameter.

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3551 Verenia

3551 Verenia, provisional designation, is an Amor asteroid and a Mars crosser discovered September 12, 1983, by R. Scott Dunbar.

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3552 Don Quixote

3552 Don Quixote, provisionally designated, is an exceptionally eccentric asteroid, classified as a near-Earth object of the Amor group, Mars-crosser and Jupiter-crosser, as well as centaur and extinct comet.

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3553 Mera

3553 Mera, provisional designation, is an Amor asteroid discovered on May 14, 1985, by C. Shoemaker at Palomar.

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3671 Dionysus

3671 Dionysus is a small binary Amor asteroid, orbiting between Earth and the asteroid belt.

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3691 Bede

3691 Bede, provisional designation, is an Amor asteroid discovered on March 29, 1982, by Luis E. González at Cerro El Roble.

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3757 Anagolay

3757 Anagolay, provisional designation, is a highly eccentric asteroid, classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid and a near-Earth object of the Amor group, approximately half a kilometer in diameter.

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3908 Nyx

3908 Nyx is an Amor and Mars-crosser asteroid.

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3988 Huma

3988 Huma, provisional designation, is an eccentric sub-kilometer asteroid and near-Earth object of the Amor group.

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4055 Magellan

4055 Magellan, provisional designation, is a bright and eccentric asteroid and near-Earth object of the Amor group, approximately 2.5 kilometers in diameter.

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433 Eros

433 Eros, provisional designation, is a stony and elongated asteroid of the Amor group and the first discovered and second-largest near-Earth object with a mean-diameter of approximately 16.8 kilometers.

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4401 Aditi

4401 Aditi, provisional designation, is an eccentric, stony asteroid, classified as near-Earth object and Amor asteroid, approximately 1.8 kilometers in diameter.

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4947 Ninkasi

4947 Ninkasi, provisional designation, is a sub-kilometer asteroid, classified as near-Earth object of the Amor group, approximately 520 meters in diameter.

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4954 Eric

4954 Eric, provisional designation is an eccentric, stony asteroid, classified as near-Earth object of the Amor group, approximately 11 kilometers in diameter.

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4957 Brucemurray

4957 Brucemurray, provisional designation, is a stony asteroid, classified as near-Earth object of the Amor group and as Mars-crosser, approximately 3 kilometers in diameter.

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5370 Taranis

5370 Taranis, provisional designation, is an asteroid and suspected dormant comet on an eccentric orbit, classified as near-Earth object of the Amor group, approximately 5 kilometers in diameter.

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5653 Camarillo

5653 Camarillo, provisional designation, is a stony asteroid and near-Earth object of the Amor group, approximately 1.5 kilometers in diameter.

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5751 Zao

5751 Zao also designated 1992 AC is an Amor asteroid discovered on January 5, 1992, by M. Koishikawa at the Ayashi Station of the Sendai Astronomical Observatory.

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65803 Didymos

65803 Didymos, provisional designation, is a sub-kilometer asteroid and synchronous binary system, classified as potentially hazardous asteroid and near-Earth object of both the Apollo and Amor group.

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7088 Ishtar

7088 Ishtar (1992 AA) is an Amor asteroid discovered on January 1, 1992, by Shoemaker, C. S. at Palomar.

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719 Albert

719 Albert, provisional designation, is a stony asteroid and prolific lost minor planet for 89 years, classified as near-Earth object of the Amor group of asteroids, approximately 2.5 kilometers in diameter.

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7336 Saunders

7336 Saunders, provisional designation, is a stony asteroid and near-Earth object of the Amor group, approximately 0.5 kilometers in diameter.

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8013 Gordonmoore

8013 Gordonmoore, provisional designation, is an eccentric, stony asteroid and near-Earth object of the Apollo group, approximately 1–2 kilometers in diameter.

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8034 Akka

8034 Akka, provisional designation, is a sub-kilometer sized, eccentric asteroid and near-Earth object of the Apollo group, approximately 540 meters in diameter.

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887 Alinda

887 Alinda is a very eccentric, near-Earth asteroid with an Earth minimum orbit intersection distance (MOID) of 0.092 AU.

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9950 ESA

9950 ESA, provisional designation, is an eccentric asteroid and elongated near-Earth object of the Amor group, approximately 1.7 kilometers in diameter.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amor_asteroid

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