2005 HC4 is the asteroid with the smallest known perihelion of any known object orbiting the Sun. Its extreme orbital eccentricity brings it within 0.071 AU of the Sun (23% of Mercury’s perihelion) and as far as 3.562 AU from the Sun (well beyond the orbit of Mars).
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