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Asteroid Near-Earth Potentially hazardous

2024 YE

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(2024 YE)

Where is it now

Distance from Sun
0.618 AU
True anomaly
272.44°
Distance from Earth
1.506 AU
As of
19 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.

Sun Earth — 0.996 AU from the Sun Earth 2024 YE — 0.618 AU from the Sun 2024 YE
Seen from above the ecliptic, north up, to scale. Grid: Earth's orbit in blue. 2024 YE is 1.506 AU from Earth today (12.5 light-minutes).

In the sky

Right ascension
12h 32m 05s
Declination
-09° 15′ 56″
Constellation
Virgo
Distance from Earth
1.51 AU
Elongation from the Sun
16.29° — too close to the Sun to observe

Visible from both hemispheres.

From your location

See how high it is right now, whether it is up after civil twilight, and when it rises and sets where you are.

How do I find my coordinates?

Google Maps on a computer

  1. Right-click the spot where you'll be observing.
  2. The first line of the menu is the coordinates, e.g. 51.50722, -0.12758 — click it and they're copied.
  3. Paste them above.

Google Maps on a phone

  1. Press and hold the spot to drop a pin.
  2. The coordinates appear in the search bar (or on the pin's card) — tap to copy, then paste above.

A full Google Maps link works too, but the short maps.app.goo.gl share links don't carry coordinates — copy the numbers instead. We round to about a kilometre; that's all the sky calculation needs.

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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
0.827 AU
Eccentricity
0.487
Inclination
20.35°
Orbital period
274.5 days
Perihelion
0.424 AU
Aphelion
1.229 AU
Longitude of ascending node
305.98°
Argument of periapsis
308.11°
Epoch · J2000
2461200.5
Orbit class · ATE
Aten
Earth MOID · 18.0 LD
0.0462 AU
Tisserand (Jupiter)
6.948

Orbit quality

Orbit very well determined (uncertainty code 2).

Observations used
48
Data arc
6.87 years
First observed
12 January 2019
Last observed
26 November 2025
Residual RMS
0.48 ″
Solution · Otto Matic
7 December 2025

Visual & observation

Absolute magnitude (H)
20.89

Discovery & classification

Aten Near-Earth Object Potentially Hazardous Asteroid

Close approaches 134 on record

When (UTC) Body Distance Lunar distances Relative speed
2029-11-24 08:50:00 Merc 0.014 AU 5.5 LD 26.1 km/s
2029-11-24 08:50:00 Mercury 0.014 AU 5.5 LD 26.1 km/s
2035-11-26 02:23:00 Merc 0.0871 AU 33.9 LD 23.5 km/s
2035-11-26 02:23:00 Mercury 0.0871 AU 33.9 LD 23.5 km/s
2042-09-04 00:18:00 Merc 0.0711 AU 27.7 LD 32.3 km/s
2042-09-04 00:18:00 Mercury 0.0711 AU 27.7 LD 32.3 km/s
2048-09-07 11:20:00 Mercury 0.0057 AU 2.2 LD 26.6 km/s
2048-09-07 11:20:00 Merc 0.0057 AU 2.2 LD 26.6 km/s
2054-09-09 07:27:00 Merc 0.0817 AU 31.8 LD 23.6 km/s
2054-09-09 07:27:00 Mercury 0.0817 AU 31.8 LD 23.6 km/s

Next ten from today. 1 lunar distance = 384,400 km. Source: JPL close-approach data.

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