Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2024 WY70 close encounter: a new image – 21 Dec. 2024.
Here it is the Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2024 WY70, going to have a relatively close, but obviously safe encounter with the Earth next 18 Jan., coming as close as 6.3 millions of km from us.
Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2024 WY70: 21 Dec. 2024.
The image above comes from the average of 5, 120-second exposures, remotely taken with the “Elena” (PlaneWave 17″ + Paramount MEII + SBIG STL-6303E) robotic unit available as part of the Virtual Telescope Project. The telescope tracked the apparent motion of the asteroid, so it looks like a sharp dot of light, while stars leave trails.
At the imaging time, asteroid 2024 WY70 was at about 26 million of km from us and safely approaching.
This 320-meter large asteroid will reach its minimum distance (about 6.3 millions of km, 16.5 times the average lunar distance) from us on 18 Jan. 2025, at 22:42 UTC (source: Nasa/JPL). Of course, there are no risks at all for our planet.
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