2024 VF is an asteroid in the Apollo orbit class. Its orbit takes it from 0.98 AU to 1.04 AU from the Sun; one orbit takes 373.3 days. Orbit from the JPL solution of 18 May 2025.
Where is it now
- Distance from Sun
- 1.009 AU
- True anomaly
- 80.81°
- Distance from Earth
- 0.294 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.
In the sky
- Right ascension
- 20h 27m 13s
- Declination
- -10° 29′ 26″
- Constellation
- Capricornus
- Distance from Earth
- 0.29 AU
- Elongation from the Sun
- 84.9° — well clear of the Sun
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
- 1.015 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.0298
- Inclination
- 8.02°
- Orbital period
- 373.3 days
- Perihelion
- 0.984 AU
- Aphelion
- 1.045 AU
- Longitude of ascending node
- 222.62°
- Argument of periapsis
- 81.03°
- Epoch · J2000
- 2461200.5
- Orbit class · APO
- Apollo
- Earth MOID · 0.4 LD
- 0.0011 AU
- Tisserand (Jupiter)
- 6.003
Orbit quality
Orbit reasonably well determined (uncertainty code 5).
- Observations used
- 52
- Data arc
- 30 days
- First observed
- 1 November 2024
- Last observed
- 1 December 2024
- Residual RMS
- 0.53 ″
- Solution · Otto Matic
- 18 May 2025
Visual & observation
- Absolute magnitude (H)
- 27.38
Discovery & classification
Listed by JPL impact monitoring; see the Sentry table for current probabilities.
Close approaches 20 on record
Top-down view of the ecliptic, Earth at the centre, for the 2068-04-29 16:07 UTC close approach of 2024 VF. Catalogue miss distance 32.9 LD · 1.26 × 10⁷ km. The curve is the geocentric path from 2068-04-26 to 2068-05-02, 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. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2068-04-29 16:07:00 | Earth | 0.0845 AU | 32.9 LD | 5.6 km/s |
| 2069-05-05 01:10:00 | Earth | 0.0384 AU | 14.9 LD | 4.2 km/s |
| 2069-11-09 23:44:00 | Earth | 0.0727 AU | 28.3 LD | 4.2 km/s |
| 2070-05-21 10:19:00 | Earth | 0.1724 AU | 67.1 LD | 5.6 km/s |
| 2070-10-28 11:16:00 | Earth | 0.0663 AU | 25.8 LD | 5.1 km/s |
| 2112-10-27 02:01:00 | Earth | 0.09 AU | 35.0 LD | 5.6 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