Measuring approximately 97 feet (30 metres) – equivalent to the size of a small building – this space rock is classified as an Aten asteroid, a group of near-Earth objects with orbits that ...

As well as Aten asteroids being hard to find because they’re always lost in the sun’s glare—such as the famous asteroid Apophis— asteroids can slightly change their course over time ...

Cruithne is a type of object called an Aten asteroid, which is a group of asteroids that live within the inner solar system between Earth and the sun. It has a weird path through space where it ...