The next close approach of asteroid 2007 FF1 to Earth will occur on August 22, 2035. 2007 FF1 is classed as an Apollo asteroid, a class of objects named for asteroid 1862 Apollo.

NASA said that asteroid 2024 LY2 belongs to the Apollo asteroid group. Apollo asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after 1862 Apollo, discovered by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth ...

A second team led by mathematician Mikko Kaasalainen from the University of Helsinki in Finland looked at a much bigger Earth-crossing asteroid, 1862 Apollo. This rock is 1.4 kilometres wide and ...

They get their name from the asteroid 1862 Apollo. Amors are Earth-approaching NEAs with orbits that bring them within the orbit of Mars but do not bring them within the orbit of Earth.

Named for 1862 Apollo, an asteroid discovered by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth 90 years ago, it takes Apollo asteroids less than two years to orbit the Sun. Asteroid 2022 EB5, which astronomers ...