The Amor asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after the archetype object 1221 Amor. The orbital perihelion of these objects is close to, but greater than, the orbital aphelion of Earth,
Common orbital subgroups of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs)
Amor asteroid Eros visited by NEAR Shoemaker in 2000
A near-Earth object is by definition any small Solar System body orbiting the Sun whose closest approach to the Sun is less than 1.3 times the Earth–Sun distance. This definition applies to the object
Amor asteroid
…The Amor asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after the archetype object 1221 Amor . The orbital perihelion of these objects is close to, but greater than, the orbital aphelion of Earth (i.e…
The VLT images the very faint Near Earth Object 2009 FD