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Asteroid Near-Earth

2022 UP6

(2022 UP6)

Where is it now

Distance from Sun
0.946 AU
True anomaly
45.48°
Distance from Earth
0.085 AU
As of
2 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 — 1.001 AU from the Sun Earth 2022 UP6 — 0.946 AU from the Sun 2022 UP6
Seen from above the ecliptic, north up, to scale. Grid: Earth's orbit in blue. 2022 UP6 is 0.085 AU from Earth today (42.3 light-seconds).

In the sky

Right ascension
14h 08m 57s
Declination
-47° 25′ 15″
Constellation
Centaurus
Distance from Earth
0.08 AU
Elongation from the Sun
47.53° — near the Sun — look low at dusk or dawn

Favours the southern hemisphere; low or below the horizon from far north.

From your location

See how high it is right now, whether it's up after dark, and when it rises and sets where you are.

How do I find my coordinates?

Google Maps on a computer

  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.
  3. Paste them above.

Google Maps on a phone

  1. Press and hold the spot to drop a pin.
  2. The coordinates appear in the search bar (or on the pin's card) — tap to copy, then paste above.

A full Google Maps link works too, but the short maps.app.goo.gl share links don't carry coordinates — copy the numbers instead. We round to about a kilometre; that's all the sky calculation needs.

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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
1.211 AU
Eccentricity
0.2687
Inclination
10.12°
Orbital period
486.9 days
Perihelion
0.886 AU
Aphelion
1.537 AU
Longitude of ascending node
22.49°
Argument of periapsis
298.72°
Epoch · J2000
2459872.5
Orbit class · APO
Apollo
Earth MOID · 0.4 LD
0.0011 AU
Tisserand (Jupiter)
5.211

Orbit quality

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

Observations used
14
Data arc
24 hours
First observed
20 October 2022
Last observed
21 October 2022
Residual RMS
0.67 ″
Solution · Otto Matic
22 October 2022

Visual & observation

Absolute magnitude (H)
28.18

Discovery & classification

Apollo Near-Earth Object

Close approaches 7 on record

When (UTC) Body Distance Lunar distances Relative speed
2026-10-15 20:59:00 Earth 0.0067 AU 2.6 LD 9 km/s

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

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