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Aten asteroid, Mercury-crosser asteroid, Venus-crosser asteroid. Objects between Venus's and Earth's zones of influence (163693) Atira: 0.74: Atira asteroid, Venus-crosser asteroid (363505) 2003 UC 20: 0.781 [citation needed] Aten asteroid, Venus-crosser asteroid: 2001 BA 16: 0.811 [citation needed] Aten asteroid: 2004 FH: 0.817: Aten asteroid ...
Leleākūhonua orbits the Sun at a distance varying from 65 to about 2000 ... (a fraction the mass of Earth's moon but several times the mass of the asteroid ...
This asteroid spends half of its orbit closer to the Sun than Earth and the other half farther away, causing it to oscillate above and below Earth's orbit annually. Its orbit experiences slight drifts that Earth's gravity corrects, keeping it between 38 and 100 times the distance of the Moon. Thus, 2016 HO3 continually dances around the Earth. [4]
“This time it passes by only 2,200 miles from the Earth – just 10% of the distance to the moon – a celestial near miss. ... Before encountering Earth, the asteroid’s orbit around the Sun ...
The temperature of the asteroid belt varies with the distance from the Sun. For dust particles within the belt, typical temperatures range from 200 K (−73 °C) at 2.2 AU down to 165 K (−108 °C) at 3.2 AU. [ 82 ]
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 will become ...
Icarus orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.19–1.97 ... it was known as the asteroid that passed closest to the Sun. ... almost 40 times as far as the Moon. The next ...
It was the 32nd known asteroid to flyby Earth within 1 lunar distance since the start of 2018 and 16th closest, although it was the largest known asteroid to pass within half a lunar distance. After closest approach its apparent magnitude dropped from 12 to 35 in less than 12 hours, heading towards the Sun. Coming from the opposite direction ...