Near-Earth object

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What Wikipedia says

A near-Earth object (NEO) is by definition any small Solar System body orbiting the Sun whose closest approach to the Sun (perihelion) is less than 1.3 times the Earth–Sun distance (astronomical unit, AU).

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Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.