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 ...

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.

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 ...

Named after the first asteroid discovered in the 1930s, 1862 Apollo, the group mostly consists of small, irregularly shaped objects. While their orbits are generally larger than Earth’s ...