Discovery date 2008-03-28 Absolute magnitude 23.1 Discoverer Mount Lemmon Survey | Discovered 28 March 2008 Asteroid group Apollo asteroid | |
Discovered by Mt. Lemmon Survey (G96)1.5-m reflector Aphelion 4.49421629 AU (672.325187 Gm) Perihelion 0.079138425 AU (11.8389399 Gm) Semi-major axis 2.28667736 AU (342.082064 Gm) | ||
2008 FF5 is the asteroid with the second-smallest known perihelion of any known object orbiting the Sun. Its extreme orbital eccentricity brings it within 0.079 AU of the Sun (26% of Mercury's perihelion) and as far as 4.487 AU from the Sun (well beyond the orbit of Mars).
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