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2024 BW17

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(2024 BW17)

2024 BW17 is an asteroid in the Apollo orbit class. Its orbit takes it from 0.86 AU to 1.19 AU from the Sun; one orbit takes 378.3 days. Orbit from the JPL solution of 19 February 2024.

Where is it now

Distance from Sun
1.147 AU
True anomaly
143.96°
Distance from Earth
0.47 AU
As of
3 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.

Sun Earth — 0.992 AU from the Sun Earth 2024 BW17 — 1.147 AU from the Sun 2024 BW17
Seen from above the ecliptic, north up, to scale. Grid: Earth's orbit in blue. 2024 BW17 is 0.47 AU from Earth today (3.9 light-minutes).

In the sky

Right ascension
19h 07m 31s
Declination
+69° 50′ 53″
Constellation
Draco
Distance from Earth
0.47 AU
Elongation from the Sun
97° — well clear of the Sun

Favours the northern hemisphere; low or below the horizon from far south.

From your location

See how high it is right now, whether it is up after civil twilight, 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
1.024 AU
Eccentricity
0.1618
Inclination
24.41°
Orbital period
378.3 days
Perihelion
0.858 AU
Aphelion
1.189 AU
Longitude of ascending node
300.04°
Argument of periapsis
316.11°
Epoch · J2000
2460331.5
Orbit class · APO
Apollo
Earth MOID · 46.0 LD
0.1182 AU
Tisserand (Jupiter)
5.88

Orbit quality

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

Observations used
8
Data arc
3 days
First observed
21 January 2024
Last observed
24 January 2024
Residual RMS
0.71 ″
Solution · Otto Matic
19 February 2024

Visual & observation

Absolute magnitude (H)
23.55

Discovery & classification

Apollo Near-Earth Object

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