{"id":798220,"date":"2025-09-15T09:17:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T14:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=798220"},"modified":"2025-09-15T09:17:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T14:17:27","slug":"asteroid-2025-rj2-to-pass-0-78-ld-from-earth-on-september-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=798220","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid 2025 RJ2 to pass 0.78 LD from Earth on September 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Since the beginning of the year, observatories worldwide have detected 96 asteroids passing within one lunar distance of Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Asteroid 2025 RJ2 was first observed by Catalina Sky Survey on September 14 \u2014 one day before its close approach to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The object belongs to the Apollo group of asteroids and has an estimated diameter between 2.8 and 6.4 m (9 \u2013 21 feet). It will make a close approach to Earth at 20:18 UTC today, traveling at a relative speed of 5.43 km\/s.<\/p>\n<p>According to current orbital solutions, asteroid 2025 RJ2 is not expected to approach Earth this closely again until September 21, 2084.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Asteroid 2025 RJ2 orbit diagram. Credit: NASA\/CNEOS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> Asteroid 2025 RJ2 \u2013 NASA\/CNEOS \u2013 Accessed September 15, 2025<\/p>\n<p><sup>2<\/sup> Asteroid 2025 RJ2 \u2013 Minor Planet Center \u2013 Accessed September 15, 2025<\/p>\n<p><!-- MOLONGUI AUTHORSHIP PLUGIN 5.1.0 --><br \/>\n<!-- https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/wordpress-plugin-post-authors --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/watchers.news\/2025\/09\/15\/asteroid-2025-rj2-0-78-ld-earth-september-15\/?rand=772151\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the beginning of the year, observatories worldwide have detected 96 asteroids passing within one lunar distance of Earth. Asteroid 2025 RJ2 was first observed by Catalina Sky Survey on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":798221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798220","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\/798220","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=798220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/798221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=798220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=798220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=798220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}