2007 FF1 is classed as an Apollo asteroid, a class of objects named for asteroid 1862 Apollo. Such asteroids have an orbit that is larger than Earth’s orbit around the Sun and their path crosses ...

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 ...

This asteroid is classified as potentially hazardous ... "Apollo" is named after the first discovery of these asteroids, 1862 Apollo, in 1932.So far, there are more than 21,000 Apollo asteroids ...

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 ...

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 ...

An asteroid, known as 2016 LK49 will be making a close approach to Earth, coming within a distance of 3,64,150 kilometres. This is closer than the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

This effect, called YORP, is making the asteroid known as 1862 Apollo spin so much faster that it now completes one more revolution during its orbit of the sun than it did 40 years ago ...