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(99907) 1989 VA is an Aten asteroid located in Venus’ zone of influence that has frequent close encounters with the Earth. It was discovered on 2 November 1989 by C. S. E. M. Shoemaker and David H. Levy at Mount Palomar and was the eighth Aten asteroid discovered.1989 VA was the first asteroid discovered with such a small semi-major axis (0.728 au about the same as Venus) breaking 2100 Ra-Shalom’s distance record (0.832 au) which had held for over a decade.

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