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TIL that there exists an asteroid 2010 TK7 (diameter- 300 mt approx) which has the same orbit around sun as earth and period close to earth's period of 365.256 days. It oscillates a lot about its mean position and on its closest approach to earth it was around 50 times farther than the moon is.

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