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The object orbits the Sun but makes slow close approaches to the Earth–Moon system. Between 29 September (19:54 UTC) and 25 November 2024 (16:43 UTC) (a period of 1 month and 27 days) [4] it passed just outside Earth's Hill sphere (roughly 0.01 AU [1.5 million km; 0.93 million mi]) at a low relative velocity (in the range 0.002 km/s (4.5 mph) – 0.439 km/s [980 mph]) and became temporarily ...
A small asteroid will be pulled into orbit around the Earth as a “mini-moon” later this month before the space rock departs into other parts of the solar system.. The 10m-wide asteroid, dubbed ...
An Arjuna asteroid, discovered in August, will become a "mini-moon" event for nearly two months from Sept. 29 to Nov. 25. Asteroid to orbit Earth as 'mini-moon' for nearly 2 months: When you can ...
The asteroid is orbiting the Sun with a semimajor axis of 3.01 AU, a period of 5.22 years, and an eccentricity of 0.1. The orbital plane is inclined by 10.9° to the plane of the ecliptic . It has a mean cross-section of 104 km, [ 3 ] and is spinning with a rotation period of 10.4 hours.
203 Pompeja is a fairly large main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on September 25, 1879, in Clinton, New York, and named after Pompeii, the Roman town destroyed in volcanic eruption in AD 79. This asteroid is orbiting the Sun at a distance of 2.74 AU with an eccentricity (ovalness) of 0.06 and a period of 4.53 yr.
An asteroid the size of a football stadium will zip past Earth today. The asteroid, 2022 BH7, is one of four near-Earth objects making a close approach this weekend. (Fear not.
Kalpanachawla is a member the Eos family (), [3] the largest family in the outer asteroid belt consisting of nearly 10,000 asteroids. [5]: 23 It orbits the Sun in the outer asteroid belt at a distance of 2.8–3.3 AU once every 5 years and 5 months (1,968 days; semi-major axis of 3.07 AU).
824 Anastasia is a main belt asteroid orbiting the Sun. It is approximately 34.14 km in diameter. [2] It was discovered on March 25, 1916, by Grigory Neujmin at Simeiz Observatory in Russian Empire. [2] [3] It is named in memory of Anastasia Semenoff, an acquaintance of the discoverer. [4]