4335 Verona (1983 VC7) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 1, 1983 at the Giordano Bruno Observatory in Cavriana. Named after the Italian city in which the observers (Luciano Lai, Ivano Rocchetti and Giordano Vesentini) were born. Asteroids (from Greek 'star' and 'like, in form') are a class of Small Solar System Bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones. These terms have historically been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disk of a planet and was not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet, but as small objects in the outer Solar System were discovered, their volatile-based surfaces were found to more closely resemble comets, and so were often distinguished from traditional asteroids.