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A screenshot from the JPL Small-Body Database Browser, showing Asteroid 2011 ES4 and Earth in close proximity on September 2, 2020 00:00 UTC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On September 1, 2020 (plus or minus a week), Earth will be visited by a celestial wanderer named Asteroid 2011 ES4<\/strong>. This asteroid is one of a class called Apollo asteroids. The name Apollo has nothing to do with the NASA Lunar Landing Program, but everything to do with Near-Earth Asteroids with orbits which cross the Earth’s orbit similar to an asteroid named 1862 Apollo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asteroid 2011 ES4 gets quite close to Earth on this visit \u2013 .0005 Astronomical Unit or 46,000 miles (75,000 km). There’s no concern of it hitting Earth, as asteroids of this class have had their orbits calculated to a very precise degree, and that distance estimate is quite accurate. As a measure of how close 2011 ES4 will be, that’s about 20 percent of the average distance from the Earth to the Moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the past year, we’ve had other close fly-bys. Asteroid 1998 OR2 came within 3.9 million miles (6.3 million kilometers) of Earth. That asteroid is of a class called “Potentially Hazardous Asteroids<\/strong>” because its orbit takes it out further from the Sun than the Apollo Asteroids, where it can possibly be perturbed by interaction with Jupiter. Asteroid 1998 OR2 is also quite large, which means it could be very dangerous if it hit Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Radar image of 1998 OR2<\/sub> taken by the Arecibo Observatory<\/a> on April 18, 2020. 
Arecibo Observatory \/ NASA \/ NSF<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Asteroid 1998 OR2<\/sub> was visible to small telescopes because of its large size and relative brightness \u2013 about magnitude 10.8. Asteroid 2011 ES4 is not expected to be visible to most amateur telescopes due to its small size; in fact, it will not be brighter than magnitude 24 until the end of August. That means it is so dim that even the Pan-STAARS 1.8 meter telescope<\/a> used to find Near-Earth asteroids might not be able to pick it up! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’ll let you know if 2011 ES4 becomes unexpectedly brighter or if it becomes visible to amateur astronomers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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