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2025 AB

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(2025 AB)

Where is it now

Distance from Sun
1.105 AU
True anomaly
225.72°
Distance from Earth
0.957 AU
As of
22 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 — 0.995 AU from the Sun Earth 2025 AB — 1.105 AU from the Sun 2025 AB
Seen from above the ecliptic, north up, to scale. Grid: Earth's orbit in blue. 2025 AB is 0.957 AU from Earth today (8.0 light-minutes).

In the sky

Right ascension
09h 38m 54s
Declination
+18° 05′ 54″
Constellation
Leo
Distance from Earth
0.95 AU
Elongation from the Sun
68.92° — 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.

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  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.
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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
0.954 AU
Eccentricity
0.3337
Inclination
9.97°
Orbital period
340.4 days
Perihelion
0.636 AU
Aphelion
1.272 AU
Longitude of ascending node
282.77°
Argument of periapsis
294.4°
Epoch · J2000
2461200.5
Orbit class · ATE
Aten
Earth MOID · 0.0 LD
0.0001 AU
Tisserand (Jupiter)
6.249

Orbit quality

Orbit reasonably well determined (uncertainty code 5).

Observations used
95
Data arc
2 days
First observed
1 January 2025
Last observed
3 January 2025
Residual RMS
0.46 ″
Solution · Otto Matic
7 January 2025

Visual & observation

Absolute magnitude (H)
27.13

Discovery & classification

Listed by JPL impact monitoring; see the Sentry table for current probabilities.

Aten Near-Earth Object

Close approaches 37 on record

Flyby geometry
Ecliptic flyby of 2025 AB at 2035-08-22 20:14 UTC Top-down view of the ecliptic, Earth at the centre, for the 2035-08-22 20:14 UTC close approach of 2025 AB. Catalogue miss distance 51.8 LD · 1.99 × 10⁷ km. The curve is the geocentric path from 2035-08-19 to 2035-08-25, 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. Sun 51.8 LD · 1.99 × 10⁷ km 2035-08-22 20:14 UTC Earth Moon Heliocentric, approximate

Top-down view of the ecliptic, Earth at the centre, for the 2035-08-22 20:14 UTC close approach of 2025 AB. Catalogue miss distance 51.8 LD · 1.99 × 10⁷ km. The curve is the geocentric path from 2035-08-19 to 2035-08-25, 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.

JPL Horizons

When (UTC) Body Distance Lunar distances Relative speed
2030-09-11 07:46:00 Venus 0.1374 AU 53.5 LD 12.1 km/s
2034-08-03 11:37:00 Venus 0.0863 AU 33.6 LD 10.3 km/s
2035-08-22 20:14:00 Earth 0.1332 AU 51.8 LD 11.6 km/s
2036-06-19 01:57:00 Venus 0.0335 AU 13.0 LD 13.9 km/s
2038-12-30 09:59:00 Earth 0.1496 AU 58.2 LD 15.6 km/s
2049-08-16 21:59:00 Earth 0.1424 AU 55.4 LD 9.7 km/s
2051-12-24 12:35:00 Earth 0.1896 AU 73.8 LD 7.9 km/s
2061-06-15 20:48:00 Venus 0.1448 AU 56.4 LD 10 km/s
2063-06-20 09:55:00 Venus 0.1362 AU 53.0 LD 10 km/s
2063-08-07 05:21:00 Earth 0.1868 AU 72.7 LD 8.2 km/s

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

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