Where is it now
- Distance from Sun
- 0.979 AU
- True anomaly
- 149.63°
- Distance from Earth
- 1.185 AU
- As of
- 17 October 2026
Two-body Kepler propagation — accurate to ~0.1% for major planets over decades, less so for highly-perturbed bodies. Use JPL Horizons for high precision.
In the sky
- Right ascension
- 17h 06m 37s
- Declination
- -23° 16′ 47″
- Constellation
- Ophiuchus
- Distance from Earth
- 1.19 AU
- Elongation from the Sun
- 52.52° — near the Sun — look low at dusk or dawn
Favours the southern hemisphere; low or below the horizon from far north.
From your location
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Two-body approximation, good to about a degree for the planets — enough to find the constellation and know whether it is up.
Orbital elements
- Semi-major axis
- 0.818 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.2515
- Inclination
- 2.08°
- Orbital period
- 270.4 days
- Perihelion
- 0.613 AU
- Aphelion
- 1.024 AU
- Longitude of ascending node
- 325.06°
- Argument of periapsis
- 195.93°
- Epoch · J2000
- 2461200.5
- Orbit class · ATE
- Aten
- Earth MOID · 0.2 LD
- 0.0005 AU
- Tisserand (Jupiter)
- 7.125
Orbit quality
Orbit reasonably well determined (uncertainty code 5).
- Observations used
- 104
- Data arc
- 32 days
- First observed
- 1 September 2024
- Last observed
- 3 October 2024
- Residual RMS
- 0.5 ″
- Solution · Otto Matic
- 3 October 2024
Visual & observation
- Absolute magnitude (H)
- 25
Discovery & classification
Listed by JPL impact monitoring; see the Sentry table for current probabilities.
Close approaches 110 on record
Top-down view of the ecliptic, Earth at the centre, for the 2027-05-19 10:12 UTC close approach of 2024 RH2. Catalogue miss distance 114.5 LD · 4.4 × 10⁷ km. The curve is the geocentric path from 2027-05-16 to 2027-05-22, with a mark at UTC midnights and an arrow for the direction of motion. The circle is the Moon’s mean orbit; the Moon is plotted at closest approach. A ray shows the Sun’s direction. The labelled distance is the full separation. The drawn radius is the part that lies in the ecliptic plane. The path is a geocentric ecliptic ephemeris from JPL Horizons. The inset is a heliocentric view and is approximate.
| When (UTC) | Body | Distance | Lunar distances | Relative speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027-05-19 10:12:00 | Earth | 0.2942 AU | 114.5 LD | 6.7 km/s |
| 2027-10-03 21:35:00 | Earth | 0.1854 AU | 72.2 LD | 10.5 km/s |
| 2029-06-04 18:43:00 | Venus | 0.0865 AU | 33.7 LD | 6.6 km/s |
| 2030-04-13 03:43:00 | Earth | 0.3571 AU | 139.0 LD | 10.7 km/s |
| 2030-09-25 08:14:00 | Earth | 0.4134 AU | 160.9 LD | 17.9 km/s |
| 2033-03-03 20:13:00 | Venus | 0.1138 AU | 44.3 LD | 7.5 km/s |
| 2033-03-14 07:46:00 | Earth | 0.3788 AU | 147.4 LD | 12.5 km/s |
| 2036-02-14 14:54:00 | Earth | 0.3705 AU | 144.2 LD | 12.2 km/s |
| 2036-11-29 22:40:00 | Venus | 0.1129 AU | 43.9 LD | 7 km/s |
| 2037-01-16 13:29:00 | Venus | 0.1476 AU | 57.5 LD | 5 km/s |
Next ten from today. 1 lunar distance = 384,400 km. Source: JPL close-approach data.
Sources
- visual properties: JPL SBDB (lookup)
- orbital elements: JPL SBDB