Asteroid (52768) 1998 OR2 - April 2020

(52768) 1998 OR2, provisional designation 1998 OR2, is an asteroid on an eccentric orbit, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group with a diameter of 2–4 kilometers. It was discovered on 24 July 1998, by astronomers of the NEAT program at the Haleakala Observatory, Hawaii. It is one of the brightest and therefore largest potentially hazardous asteroids known to exist.[8] With an observation arc of 32 years, the asteroid has a well determined orbit and the trajec
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