2024 FA is an asteroid in the Apollo orbit class. Its orbit takes it from 0.46 AU to 1.62 AU from the Sun; one orbit takes 385.8 days. Orbit from the JPL solution of 18 March 2025.
Where is it now
- Distance from Sun
- 1.407 AU
- True anomaly
- 208.1°
- Distance from Earth
- 2.314 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
- 15h 49m 48s
- Declination
- -09° 13′ 41″
- Constellation
- Libra
- Distance from Earth
- 2.31 AU
- Elongation from the Sun
- 18.17° — too close to the Sun to observe
Visible from both hemispheres.
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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
- 1.037 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.5586
- Inclination
- 18.14°
- Orbital period
- 385.8 days
- Perihelion
- 0.458 AU
- Aphelion
- 1.616 AU
- Longitude of ascending node
- 172.58°
- Argument of periapsis
- 228.18°
- Epoch · J2000
- 2461200.5
- Orbit class · APO
- Apollo
- Earth MOID · 22.4 LD
- 0.0577 AU
- Tisserand (Jupiter)
- 5.721
Orbit quality
Orbit very well determined (uncertainty code 2).
- Observations used
- 66
- Data arc
- 5.86 years
- First observed
- 8 May 2019
- Last observed
- 17 March 2025
- Residual RMS
- 0.63 ″
- Solution · Otto Matic
- 18 March 2025
Visual & observation
- Absolute magnitude (H)
- 22.51
Discovery & classification
Close approaches 18 on record
Top-down view of the ecliptic, Earth at the centre, for the 2043-03-02 19:30 UTC close approach of 2024 FA. Catalogue miss distance 41.0 LD · 1.57 × 10⁷ km. The curve is the geocentric path from 2043-02-27 to 2043-03-05, 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 south 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2043-03-02 19:30:00 | Earth | 0.1053 AU | 41.0 LD | 16.8 km/s |
| 2062-03-03 16:58:00 | Earth | 0.0644 AU | 25.1 LD | 18.3 km/s |
| 2081-03-04 09:47:00 | Earth | 0.0561 AU | 21.8 LD | 19.2 km/s |
| 2100-03-06 10:26:00 | Earth | 0.0712 AU | 27.7 LD | 20.3 km/s |
| 2119-03-09 16:53:00 | Earth | 0.1288 AU | 50.1 LD | 22.3 km/s |
| 2137-03-03 09:12:00 | Earth | 0.1502 AU | 58.5 LD | 15.7 km/s |
| 2156-03-03 19:52:00 | Earth | 0.0907 AU | 35.3 LD | 17.2 km/s |
| 2175-03-05 18:01:00 | Earth | 0.0571 AU | 22.2 LD | 18.5 km/s |
| 2194-03-06 13:45:00 | Earth | 0.0549 AU | 21.4 LD | 19.5 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