University of Hawaii: Fastest Asteroid Around the Sun Discovered
August 24, 2021
August 24, 2021
HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 24 (TNSRes) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release:
The Sun has a new nearest asteroid neighbor. A team including University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) astronomer David Tholen has discovered an asteroid with the shortest known orbital period around the Sun - only 113 days. Of all the known objects in our solar system, only the planet Mercury has a shorter orbital period.
Team leader Scott S. Sheppard, an IfA gra . . .
The Sun has a new nearest asteroid neighbor. A team including University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) astronomer David Tholen has discovered an asteroid with the shortest known orbital period around the Sun - only 113 days. Of all the known objects in our solar system, only the planet Mercury has a shorter orbital period.
Team leader Scott S. Sheppard, an IfA gra . . .