(33342) 1998 WT24 (also written (33342) 1998 WT24) is an Aten asteroid located in Venus' zone of influence that has frequent close encounters with Mercury, Venus, and Earth. It is also one of the best studied potentially hazardous asteroids.
(33342) 1998 WT24 was discovered on November 25, 1998, by LINEAR about four months after a particularly close encounter with the planet Mercury (about 0.047 au). At the time of its discovery, astronomers were...
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