near-Earth object
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Solar System object whose orbit brings it into proximity with Earth
Key facts
- Type
- Small Solar System body
- Found
- within 1.3 AU from the Sun
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Apollos: 21,132 (56.5%)
Amors: 13,137 (35.1%)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “near-Earth object” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.