The Amor asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after the asteroid 1221 Amor. They approach the orbit of the Earth from beyond, but do not cross it.... discovered on February 24, 1985 by E. Helin at Palomar
Palomar Observatory
Palomar Observatory is a privately owned observatory located in San Diego County, California, 90 miles southeast of Mount Wilson Observatory, on Palomar Mountain in the Palomar Mountain Range.... .
The Amor asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after the asteroid 1221 Amor. They approach the orbit of the Earth from beyond, but do not cross it.... discovered on February 24, 1985 by E. Helin at Palomar
Palomar Observatory
Palomar Observatory is a privately owned observatory located in San Diego County, California, 90 miles southeast of Mount Wilson Observatory, on Palomar Mountain in the Palomar Mountain Range.... .
The spectra of the V-type asteroids or Vestoids are similar to that of 4 Vesta, by far the largest asteroid in this class .A large proportion have orbital elements similar to those of 4 Vesta, either close enough to be part of the Vesta family, or having similar eccentricity and inclinations but with a semi-major axis lying between a...
4 Vesta is the second most massive object in the asteroid belt, with a mean diameter of about 530 km and an estimated mass of 9% of the mass of the entire asteroid belt....
3908 Nyx is an Amor asteroid and Mars-crosser asteroid. It was discovered by Hans-Emil Schuster on August 6, 1980 and is named after Nyx , the Greek mythology goddess of the night, after which Pluto's natural satellite Nix is also named....
3551 Verenia is an Amor asteroid and a Mars-crosser asteroid discovered in 1983 by R. Scott Dunbar. Although Verenia passed within 40 Gm of the Earth in the 20th century, it will never do so in the 21st....
