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2025 EY1

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(2025 EY1)

2025 EY1 is an asteroid in the Apollo orbit class. Its orbit takes it from 0.68 AU to 1.4 AU from the Sun; one orbit takes 386.2 days. Orbit from the JPL solution of 10 March 2025.

Where is it now

Distance from Sun
1.141 AU
True anomaly
234.86°
Distance from Earth
1.722 AU
As of
4 November 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 — 0.992 AU from the Sun Earth 2025 EY1 — 1.141 AU from the Sun 2025 EY1
Seen from above the ecliptic, north up, to scale. Grid: Earth's orbit in blue. 2025 EY1 is 1.722 AU from Earth today (14.3 light-minutes).

In the sky

Right ascension
17h 21m 23s
Declination
-27° 26′ 16″
Constellation
Ophiuchus
Distance from Earth
1.72 AU
Elongation from the Sun
39.16° — near the Sun — look low at dusk or dawn

Favours the southern hemisphere; low or below the horizon from far north.

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
1.038 AU
Eccentricity
0.3442
Inclination
8.59°
Orbital period
386.2 days
Perihelion
0.681 AU
Aphelion
1.395 AU
Longitude of ascending node
343.53°
Argument of periapsis
76°
Epoch · J2000
2461200.5
Orbit class · APO
Apollo
Earth MOID · 1.0 LD
0.0026 AU
Tisserand (Jupiter)
5.843

Orbit quality

Orbit poorly determined (uncertainty code 6).

Observations used
99
Data arc
5 days
First observed
5 March 2025
Last observed
10 March 2025
Residual RMS
0.44 ″
Solution · Otto Matic
10 March 2025

Visual & observation

Absolute magnitude (H)
26.59

Discovery & classification

Apollo Near-Earth Object

Close approaches 18 on record

Flyby geometry
Ecliptic flyby of 2025 EY1 at 2039-08-09 06:46 UTC Sun 29.8 LD · 1.15 × 10⁷ km 2039-08-09 06:46 UTC Earth Moon Heliocentric, approximate

Top-down view of the ecliptic, Earth at the centre, for the 2039-08-09 06:46 UTC close approach of 2025 EY1. Catalogue miss distance 29.8 LD · 1.15 × 10⁷ km. The curve is the geocentric path from 2039-08-06 to 2039-08-12, 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. At closest approach the object is south of the ecliptic. The path is a geocentric ecliptic ephemeris from JPL Horizons. The inset is a heliocentric view and is approximate.

JPL Horizons

When (UTC) Body Distance Lunar distances Relative speed
2032-04-22 05:47:00 Venus 0.0916 AU 35.6 LD 9.2 km/s
2039-08-09 06:46:00 Earth 0.0766 AU 29.8 LD 11.7 km/s
2044-03-10 08:58:00 Earth 0.1771 AU 68.9 LD 16.1 km/s
2047-04-05 04:57:00 Venus 0.0848 AU 33.0 LD 12.2 km/s
2062-03-03 14:23:00 Moon 0.0026 AU 1.0 LD 12 km/s
2062-03-03 16:30:00 Earth 0.0021 AU 0.8 LD 11.1 km/s

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

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