This newly discovered asteroid is the second-closest natural object to the sun

Excluding Mercury, this newly discovered asteroid has the smallest known aphelion distance in our entire solar system.

This newly discovered asteroid is the second-closest natural object to the sun : Read more

"Moreover, by traveling around the sun in a mere 151 days, 2020 AV2 has the shortest orbital period of any known asteroid, according to The Virtual Telescope Project, an online observatory based in Italy."

My observation. Perhaps these asteroids moving around the Sun inside Venus orbit - are decaying too on short time scales compared to the radiometric age of the solar system using meteorites.
 

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