Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2022 RM4 close encounter: a image – 26 Oct. 2022

We captured the Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2022 RM4 while safely coming as close as 2.3 millions of km, next week.

Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2022 RM4. 26 Oct. 2022.

Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2022 RM4. 26 Oct. 2022.

The image above comes from the average of three, 180-second exposure, remotely taken with the “Elena” (PlaneWave 17″ + Paramount ME + SBIG STL-6303E) robotic unit available at Virtual Telescope. The telescope tracked the apparent motion of the asteroid, this is why stars look like short trails while the asteroid is a sharp dot of light.

At the imaging time, potentially hazardous asteroid 2022 RM4 was at about 12.5 millions of km from us and safely approaching our Earth.

This 330-740 meters large asteroid (source: Nasa/JPL) was discovered by the Pan-STARRS survey on 12 Sept. 2022 and announced three days later. Of course, there are no risks at all for our planet.

We will show it live on the night of its fly-by, on 1 Nov. 2022!

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