NASA said that asteroid 2024 LY2 belongs to the Apollo asteroid group. Apollo asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after 1862 Apollo, discovered by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth ...

A kilometer-diameter "Apollo" asteroid called (7482) 1994 PC1 will make a close pass of Earth on January 22, 2022. ... a class of objects named for asteroid 1862 Apollo.

They get their name from the asteroid 1862 Apollo. Amors are Earth-approaching NEAs with orbits that bring them within the orbit of Mars but do not bring them within the orbit of Earth.

The asteroid 1862 Apollo's diameter is about 1.5 km, it has a small moonlet, and its orbit crosses that of the Earth. The team reconstructed Apollo's shape and determined its rotational state ...

A second team led by mathematician Mikko Kaasalainen from the University of Helsinki in Finland looked at a much bigger Earth-crossing asteroid, 1862 Apollo. This rock is 1.4 kilometres wide and ...

2023 DZ2 is an Apollo asteroid, meaning it crosses the orbit of the Earth just like the asteroid named 'Apollo' in 1862, which was the first to be observed doing this.

Named for 1862 Apollo, an asteroid discovered by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth 90 years ago, it takes Apollo asteroids less than two years to orbit the Sun. Asteroid 2022 EB5, which astronomers ...

Soil-like pebbles in moon samples brought home by Apollo 16 astronauts ... These trapped gasses serve as useful timestamps of space weather processes like solar wind and asteroid impacts that have ...

The fast-moving asteroid 2023 DZ2 will pass us – safely – at a distance of 107,500 miles, ... Because of its orbit, 2023 DZ2 is considered an Apollo asteroid, or near-Earth asteroid.

Asteroid DZ2, EarthSky.org reported, is a member of the Apollo family of asteroids and orbits the sun every 3.16 years. The meteor that exploded over Russia’s Ural Mountains in Chelyabinsk in ...