3551 Verenia is an Amor asteroid and a Mars crosser discovered in 1983 by R. Scott Dunbar. Although Verenia passed within 40 Gm of the Earth in the 20th century it will never do so in the 21st. In 2028 it will come within 0.025 AU of Ceres.Verenia was named for the first vestal virgin consecrated by the legendary Roman king Numa Pompilius.
This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "3551 Verenia"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.