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Earth-crossing asteroid
An Earth-Crossing Asteroid (ECA), is an asteroid that is capable of coming very near to the Earth at any point in the future. This is not to be confused with an Earth-crosser asteroid, which has an aphelion greater than Earth's aphelion, and a perihelion less than the Earth's perihelion.
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