Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (6239) Minos close encounter: an image – 28 Jan. 2025.
Next 5 Feb. 2025, the Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (6239) Minos will have a relatively close, but obviously safe encounter with the Earth, coming as close as 14.8 millions of km from us. Here we present one of our images.
Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (6239) Minos: 29 Jan. 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. The telescope tracked the apparent motion of the asteroid, so it looks like a sharp dot of light, while stars leave trails.
At the imaging time, asteroid (6239) Minos was at about 15 million of km from us and safely approaching.
This 0.5 – 1.1-km large asteroid will reach its minimum distance (about 14.8 millions of km, 38.5 times the average lunar distance) from us on 5 Feb. 2025, at 09:34 UTC (source: Nasa/JPL). Of course, there are no risks at all for our planet.
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