Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2024 ON close encounter: an image – 15 Sept. 2024.
This image of the potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 ON was taken during our successful live feed, while the object was safely coming as close as one million of km from us, 2.6 times the average lunar distance.
Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2024 ON: 15 Sept. 2024.
The image above comes from a single 60-second exposure, remotely taken with the Celestron C14+Paramount ME+SBIG ST8-XME robotic unit available as part of the Virtual Telescope Project. The telescope tracked the apparent motion of the asteroid, so it looks like a bright, sharp dot of light, indicated with a white arrow, while stars leave bright streaks on the background.
A very bright Moon was above the horizon, while an artificial satellite crossed the field of view.
At the imaging time, asteroid 2024 ON was at about 1.5 millions of km from our planet and approaching.
Below is the podcast from our live feed, when we shared this asteroid and 2024 RQ live.
This 220-480 m large asteroid will reach its minimum distance (about 1 million of km, 2.6 times the average lunar distance) from us on 17 Sept. 2024, at 10:19 UTC (source: Nasa/JPL). Of course, there are no risks at all for our planet.
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