Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2013 FW13 close encounter: an image – 10 Sept. 2024.
We imaged the Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2013 FW13 again, it will have a relatively close, but obviously safe encounter with the Earth next 18 Sept., coming as close as 3.2 millions of km from us.
Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2013 FW13: 10 Sept. 2024.
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. 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.
At the imaging time, asteroid 2013 FW13 was at about 10,4 millions of km from us.
This 120-270 meter large asteroid will reach its minimum distance (about 3.2 millions of km, 8.4 times the average lunar distance) from us on 18 Sept. 2024, at 06:29 UTC (source: Nasa/JPL). Of course, there are no risks at all for our planet.
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