Hi,
a few day ago, astronomers discovered a 1km dia asteroid orbiting inside the earth's orbit.
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Been hiding itself from us for a while ....
...... Phil
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OT Asteroid orbiting Sun, Mercury and Venus.
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It is much more likely to slingshot around one of them into a new orbit, including one that crosses Earth's.
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Everything in the solar system revolves around *everything* else. The sun is just the heaviest of them, it's not a fixed axis like in an orrery.
Once the asteroid has enough kinetic (orbital) energy, it's more likely to crash into the sun only because the sun has a bigger cross-section area than the earth, not because it has a bigger gravitational pull.
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