Earth-crossing asteroid Comparison Table

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Earth-crossing asteroid comparison table

Subject has surface composition has rotation period is a kind of has perihelion distance is an instance of has orbital period has radiu has discovery date has aphelion distance has semi-major axi has albedo has closest distance to Earth has definition has asteroid number has eccentricity has discoverer

Apollo asteroid Earth-crossing asteroid One of a small group of asteroids whose orbits intersect that of Earth. They are named for the prototype, Apollo.

Toro rocky, thinly covered with dust 10^h11^m 0.77 AU Earth-crossing asteroid 584.2 days 5 × 3 km 1948 1.96 AU a = 1.37 AU ≤ 0.15 0.13 AU 1685 e = 0.44 Wirtanen

Subject	has surface composition	has rotation period	is a kind of	has perihelion distance	is an instance of	has orbital period	has radiu	has discovery date	has aphelion distance	has semi-major axi	has albedo	has closest distance to Earth	has definition	has asteroid number	has eccentricity	has discoverer
Apollo asteroid			Earth-crossing asteroid										One of a small group of asteroids whose orbits intersect that of Earth. They are named for the prototype, Apollo.
Toro	rocky, thinly covered with dust	10^h11^m		0.77 AU	Earth-crossing asteroid	584.2 days	5 × 3 km	1948	1.96 AU	a = 1.37 AU	≤ 0.15	0.13 AU		1685	e = 0.44	Wirtanen

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