Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2024 KH3 close encounter: an image – 31 July 2024.
We imaged again the potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 KH3, which will have a relatively close, but obviously safe encounter with the Earth on 10 Aug. 2024, coming as close as 5.6 million of km from us.
Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2024 KH3: 31 July 2024.
The image above comes from a single, 120-second exposure, 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, indicated with a white arrow, while stars leave bright streaks on the background.
When we captured the picture above, asteroid 2024 KH3 was at about 11 million of km from us and approaching.
This 150-320 m large asteroid will reach its minimum distance (about 5.6 million of km, 14.5 times the average lunar distance) from us on 10 Aug. 2024, at 15:07 UTC (source: Nasa/JPL). Of course, there are no risks at all for our planet.
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