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Shocking! First-ever asteroid within orbit of Venus Spotted; Meet the unique asteroid 2020 AV2

For the first time ever, an asteroid has been spotted that lies entirely within the orbit of Venus. Scientists believe this could give rise to an entirely new population of asteroids. The source of the majority of the asteroids in our solar system lies in the asteroid belt. Located roughly between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars, this region is the home to asteroids ranging from the size of a pebble to a dwarf planet (Ceres at 950 kilometers width). And for years, scientists have known that most asteroids are either coming from and to the asteroid belt or have been ejected by Jupiter's gravitational pull and have been stranded in a distant part of the solar system. However, this notion has been broken after an ast...