* Astronomy

The apparently asteroidal object  2007 VA85  has the shortest known orbital period (7.6 yr) for a orbiting  object with a retrograde orbit (i = 132.6 deg).
2007 VA85  was discovered by the LINEAR project.

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Orbital elements:
2007 VA85                                                Earth MOID = 0.1426 AU
Epoch 2007 Oct. 27.0 TT = JDT 2454400.5                 MPC
M  11.93932              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.12966232     Peri.   23.79462     -0.14243749     +0.73232874
a   3.8659852      Node   115.20098     +0.74819669     -0.36077423
e   0.7182148      Incl.  132.61381     +0.64800716     +0.57752626
P   7.60           H   15.1           G   0.15           U   8

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