Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (363027) 1998 ST27 close encounter: an image – 25 Sept. 2024.
We imaged again the Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (363027) 1998 ST27, going to have a relatively close, but obviously safe encounter with the Earth next 12 Oct., coming as close as 3.6 millions of km from us.
Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (363027) 1998 ST27: 25 Sept. 2024.
The image above comes from the average of five, 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. 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 (363027) 1998 ST27 was at about 24 million of km from us.
This 500-meter large asteroid will reach its minimum distance (about 3.6 millions of km, 9.3 times the average lunar distance) from us on 12 Oct. 2024, at 01:52 UTC (source: Nasa/JPL). Of course, there are no risks at all for our planet.
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