Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (424482) 2008 DG5 close encounter: an image – 17 May 2025.
Next 5 June 2025, the Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (424482) 2008 DG5 will have a close, but safe close encounter with the Earth, coming as close as 3.5 million of km from us, 9 times the average lunar distance. We present here our first image, waiting to show it live, online!
Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (424482) 2008 DG5 close encounter: 17 May 2025.
The image above comes from the average of two, 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 and installed in Manciano, Italy. The telescope tracked the apparent motion of the asteroid, so it looks like a sharp dot of light, marked with a white arrow, while stars show as short trails.
At the imaging time, asteroid (424482) 2008 DG5 was at about 11 million of km from us and safely approaching.
This 320 – 700 meters large asteroid will reach its minimum distance (about 3.5 millions of km, 9 times the average lunar distance) from us on 5 June 2025, at 23:59 UTC (source: Nasa/JPL). Of course, there are no risks at all for our planet.
We will show asteroid 2008 DG5 live, online, on 5 June 2025: join the live feed here!
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