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Look: Fast-moving asteroid could help unlock Solar System secrets

by Jennifer Walter
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Our Solar System is home to over one million asteroids.

Some have predictable orbits, moving elliptically around a planet. Others behave more erratically.

Take 2021 PH27, for example.

The newly-discovered asteroid is currently zipping along an uneven path, completing one trip around the sun in just 113 days.

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