The 'Atiras'

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 14:14 in Astronomy & Space

The first asteroid ever discovered that has an orbit completely inside the Earth's, found by an MIT Lincoln Laboratory telescope in 2003, has been formally named Atira by its discoverers.

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