2025 WH5 is an asteroid in the Apollo orbit class. Its orbit takes it from 0.78 AU to 1.24 AU from the Sun; one orbit takes 370.6 days. Orbit from the JPL solution of 10 December 2025.
Where is it now
- Distance from Sun
- 1.242 AU
- True anomaly
- 184.74°
- Distance from Earth
- 0.257 AU
- As of
- 3 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.
In the sky
- Right ascension
- 02h 44m 55s
- Declination
- +29° 25′ 53″
- Constellation
- Aries
- Distance from Earth
- 0.26 AU
- Elongation from the Sun
- 165.71° — near opposition — up most of the night
Favours the northern hemisphere; low or below the horizon from far south.
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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
- 1.01 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.2317
- Inclination
- 6.5°
- Orbital period
- 370.6 days
- Perihelion
- 0.776 AU
- Aphelion
- 1.244 AU
- Longitude of ascending node
- 18.92°
- Argument of periapsis
- 199.13°
- Epoch · J2000
- 2461200.5
- Orbit class · APO
- Apollo
- Earth MOID · 36.4 LD
- 0.0936 AU
- Tisserand (Jupiter)
- 6.005
Orbit quality
Orbit poorly determined (uncertainty code 6).
- Observations used
- 34
- Data arc
- 14 days
- First observed
- 25 November 2025
- Last observed
- 9 December 2025
- Residual RMS
- 0.45 ″
- Solution · Otto Matic
- 10 December 2025
Visual & observation
- Absolute magnitude (H)
- 23.61
Discovery & classification
Close approaches 30 on record
Top-down view of the ecliptic, Earth at the centre, for the 2030-09-20 23:37 UTC close approach of 2025 WH5. Catalogue miss distance 74.1 LD · 2.85 × 10⁷ km. The curve is the geocentric path from 2030-09-17 to 2030-09-23, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2030-09-20 23:37:00 | Earth | 0.1904 AU | 74.1 LD | 6.2 km/s |
| 2031-09-04 11:57:00 | Earth | 0.1472 AU | 57.3 LD | 5.6 km/s |
| 2032-08-21 10:58:00 | Earth | 0.1022 AU | 39.8 LD | 6.4 km/s |
| 2033-08-20 08:51:00 | Earth | 0.1026 AU | 39.9 LD | 8.6 km/s |
| 2034-08-22 16:53:00 | Earth | 0.1582 AU | 61.6 LD | 11.1 km/s |
| 2045-07-24 07:37:00 | Venus | 0.073 AU | 28.4 LD | 4 km/s |
| 2065-11-10 17:52:00 | Venus | 0.0944 AU | 36.7 LD | 5.8 km/s |
| 2091-01-21 15:41:00 | Earth | 0.1351 AU | 52.6 LD | 9.8 km/s |
| 2102-08-23 10:42:00 | Earth | 0.1017 AU | 39.6 LD | 6.4 km/s |
| 2103-05-23 11:40:00 | Venus | 0.0811 AU | 31.5 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