Near-Earth Asteroid 2025 OW close encounter: an image – 27 July 2025
We captured the near-Earth Asteroid 2025 OW while it was safely approaching for its 28 July 2025 flyby with the Earth. It will come as close as 633.000 km from the center of the Earth, 1.6X times the average distance of the Moon.
Near-Earth Asteroid 2025 OW: 27 July 2025.
The image above comes from a single 300-second exposure, 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, under the darkest skies of the Italian peninsula. The telescope tracked the fast apparent motion of the asteroid, this is why it looks like a sharp dot of light in the center (indicated by an arrow), with stars leaving long, bright streaks on the background.
At the observing time, asteroid 2025 OW was at about 1.9 million km from our telescope, still safely approaching to the Earth.
This (51 – 110) meters asteroid will reach its minimum distance (about 633.000 km from the center of the Earth.) from us on 28 July 2025, at 19:44 UTC (source: Nasa/JPL). A similar approach happens on average one time per year. Of course, there were no risks at all for our planet.
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