According to the center’s document, the 2020 AV2 object was discovered by researchers through the observatory on Mount Palomar in the United States. They observed this object in the constellation Aquarius (Aquarius). According to scientific measurements, this asteroid has a diameter of about 2 km.

Its orbit should be classified as asteroid. The orbit closest to the Sun - called the perihelion - almost reaches Mercury’s orbit and the farthest point - aphelion - is located 0.65 astronomical units from the Sun, meaning closer to the Sun. Venus (Venus’ orbit is 0.73 astronomical units from the sun).

Notably, researchers have previously found asteroids in those regions, but all of them fly much farther away than Venus. Astronomers have previously believed that asteroids cannot always be near the Sun due to the heat emanating from them: it is thought that this heat will burn or knock away everything except the objects. as big as Mercury and Venus.

However, in March 2019 they discovered that a whole cloud of dust followed Mercury’s orbit, further orbiting its entire length. The width of this rotation is 4800 km, matching the diameter of Mercury itself.

Also discovered another rotation in the orbit of Venus, but this time it was a giant rotation: a width of 9 million km. Scientists think these clouds arise due to multiple asteroid collisions. The newly discovered asteroid 2020 AV2 is the first confirmation of this hypothesis.

It is worth noting that, in the middle of the nineteenth century, astronomers realized that Mercury’s orbit was unstable and somehow shifted. They hypothesize that an unknown planet affects Mercury with its gravity. They "assumed" to call it Volcano.

However, since then there has been no reliable information about the existence of this planet. In addition, calculations based on Einstein’s Theory of Relativity show that the deviation of Mercury’s orbit is due to the time-space deviation near the Sun.

We added that observing Venus and Mercury is difficult because of their proximity to the Sun: they seem to "follow" the Sun in the sky, so they cannot be seen in the sky. at night - they can only be seen after sunset or before dawn.