2023 VE5 is an asteroid in the Apollo orbit class. Its orbit takes it from 0.66 AU to 1.42 AU from the Sun; one orbit takes 387.1 days. Orbit from the JPL solution of 28 July 2025.
Where is it now
- Distance from Sun
- 1.402 AU
- True anomaly
- 190.72°
- Distance from Earth
- 0.844 AU
- As of
- 4 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
- 22h 46m 10s
- Declination
- -45° 38′ 04″
- Constellation
- Grus
- Distance from Earth
- 0.85 AU
- Elongation from the Sun
- 99.16° — well clear of the Sun
Favours the southern hemisphere; low or below the horizon from far north.
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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
- 1.04 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.3618
- Inclination
- 28.54°
- Orbital period
- 387.1 days
- Perihelion
- 0.663 AU
- Aphelion
- 1.416 AU
- Longitude of ascending node
- 53.38°
- Argument of periapsis
- 123.4°
- Epoch · J2000
- 2461200.5
- Orbit class · APO
- Apollo
- Earth MOID · 41.4 LD
- 0.1063 AU
- Tisserand (Jupiter)
- 5.738
Orbit quality
Orbit poorly determined (uncertainty code 7).
- Observations used
- 27
- Data arc
- 25 days
- First observed
- 8 November 2023
- Last observed
- 3 December 2023
- Residual RMS
- 0.29 ″
- Solution · Otto Matic
- 28 July 2025
Visual & observation
- Absolute magnitude (H)
- 23.73
Discovery & classification
Close approaches 33 on record
Top-down view of the ecliptic, Earth at the centre, for the 2040-11-19 20:42 UTC close approach of 2023 VE5. Catalogue miss distance 76.9 LD · 2.95 × 10⁷ km. The curve is the geocentric path from 2040-11-16 to 2040-11-22, 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. At closest approach the object is north of the ecliptic. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2032-09-05 21:03:00 | Venus | 0.044 AU | 17.1 LD | 17.8 km/s |
| 2040-11-19 20:42:00 | Earth | 0.1975 AU | 76.9 LD | 20.7 km/s |
| 2051-10-01 09:39:00 | Venus | 0.0679 AU | 26.4 LD | 17.4 km/s |
| 2058-11-21 04:10:00 | Earth | 0.1706 AU | 66.4 LD | 20 km/s |
| 2070-10-23 16:22:00 | Venus | 0.136 AU | 52.9 LD | 16.6 km/s |
| 2076-11-20 23:39:00 | Earth | 0.1622 AU | 63.1 LD | 19.8 km/s |
| 2078-03-22 00:12:00 | Venus | 0.0847 AU | 33.0 LD | 20.8 km/s |
| 2094-11-21 23:55:00 | Earth | 0.1467 AU | 57.1 LD | 19.3 km/s |
| 2097-04-14 05:09:00 | Venus | 0.0301 AU | 11.7 LD | 19.2 km/s |
| 2112-11-23 19:30:00 | Earth | 0.1096 AU | 42.6 LD | 17.6 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