{"id":789695,"date":"2024-09-27T16:12:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T21:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=789695"},"modified":"2024-09-27T16:12:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T21:12:57","slug":"asteroid-2024-sv2-to-fly-past-earth-at-just-0-1-ld-on-september-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=789695","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid 2024 SV2 to fly past Earth at just 0.1 LD on September 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A newly discovered asteroid 2024 SV2 will fly past Earth at a very close distance of 0.1 LD on September 28.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 71<sup>st<\/sup> known asteroid to pass within 1 lunar distance (LD) of Earth since the start of the year. It is also the 15<sup>th<\/sup> such asteroid in September, making it the month with the most close flybys this year. April follows with 12, and February with 9.<\/p>\n<p>2024 SV2 was first observed at Pan-STARRS 2, Haleakala, Hawaii on September 26 \u2014 2 days before its close approach to our planet.<\/p>\n<p>It belongs to the Apollo group of asteroids and has an estimated diameter between 5 and 11 m (16 \u2013 36 feet).<\/p>\n<p>The object will make a close approach to Earth at 17:02 UTC on September 28, traveling at a relative speed of 11.5 km\/s.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Asteroid 2024 SV2 orbit diagram. Image credit: CNEOS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>References<\/p>\n<p>Asteroid 2024 SV2 at Minor Planet Center; at CNEOS<\/p>\n<p><!-- MOLONGUI AUTHORSHIP PLUGIN 4.9.7 --><br \/>\n<!-- https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/wordpress-plugin-post-authors --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/watchers.news\/2024\/09\/27\/asteroid-2024-sv2-to-fly-past-earth-at-just-0-1-ld-on-september-28\/?rand=772151\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly discovered asteroid 2024 SV2 will fly past Earth at a very close distance of 0.1 LD on September 28. This is the 71st known asteroid to pass within&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":789696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-789695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=789695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/789696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=789695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=789695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=789695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}