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2025 FD15

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(2025 FD15)

Where is it now

Distance from Sun
0.951 AU
True anomaly
159.29°
Distance from Earth
1.876 AU
As of
15 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 — 0.997 AU from the Sun Earth 2025 FD15 — 0.951 AU from the Sun 2025 FD15
Seen from above the ecliptic, north up, to scale. Grid: Earth's orbit in blue. 2025 FD15 is 1.876 AU from Earth today (15.6 light-minutes).

In the sky

Right ascension
12h 29m 16s
Declination
-02° 32′ 17″
Constellation
Virgo
Distance from Earth
1.88 AU
Elongation from the Sun
15.34° — too close to the Sun to observe

Visible from both hemispheres.

From your location

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  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.
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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
0.661 AU
Eccentricity
0.5534
Inclination
5.24°
Orbital period
196.3 days
Perihelion
0.295 AU
Aphelion
1.027 AU
Longitude of ascending node
4.06°
Argument of periapsis
7.8°
Epoch · J2000
2460761.5
Orbit class · ATE
Aten
Earth MOID · 3.0 LD
0.0076 AU
Tisserand (Jupiter)
8.462

Orbit quality

Orbit very uncertain — the object may be effectively lost (uncertainty code 8).

Observations used
18
Data arc
3 days
First observed
27 March 2025
Last observed
30 March 2025
Residual RMS
0.36 ″
Solution · Otto Matic
28 July 2026

Visual & observation

Absolute magnitude (H)
27.65

Discovery & classification

Aten Near-Earth Object

Close approaches 38 on record

When (UTC) Body Distance Lunar distances Relative speed
2028-11-07 04:25:00 Venus 0.0557 AU 21.7 LD 22.7 km/s
2033-02-26 13:01:00 Venus 0.0357 AU 13.9 LD 21.7 km/s
2037-06-18 07:53:00 Venus 0.031 AU 12.1 LD 21.4 km/s
2038-11-09 05:57:00 Venus 0.146 AU 56.8 LD 14.4 km/s
2041-10-08 11:35:00 Venus 0.0426 AU 16.6 LD 22 km/s
2042-03-01 12:20:00 Mercury 0.0913 AU 35.5 LD 30.4 km/s
2042-03-01 12:20:00 Merc 0.0913 AU 35.5 LD 30.4 km/s
2046-01-29 02:15:00 Venus 0.0691 AU 26.9 LD 23.3 km/s
2050-05-21 21:00:00 Venus 0.1004 AU 39.1 LD 24.9 km/s
2071-10-17 15:21:00 Merc 0.0481 AU 18.7 LD 26 km/s

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

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