Kilometre-size asteroid discovered orbiting Sun every 151 days - inside Earth's orbit

[gary]

In a press release today from Caltech (https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/ztf-spots-asteroid-shortest-year), it is reported that :-





Story here :-
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/ztf-spots-asteroid-shortest-year

The International Astronomical Union Minor Planet Center listing for 2019 LF6 :-
https://minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K19/K19M45.html

[xelasnave]

Very interesting Gary. Thanks again for all the neat stuff you post.
Alex

[Wavytone]

Well at least it can't hit us.

What they're really looking for is stuff that will hit Earth from an orbit that takes the object close to the sun, where we are blind...