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2025 BD18

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(2025 BD18)

Where is it now

Distance from Sun
5.162 AU
True anomaly
107.43°
Distance from Earth
5.851 AU
As of
11 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.

Orbit of Mercury Orbit of Venus Orbit of Mars Sun Earth — 0.998 AU from the Sun Earth 2025 BD18 — 5.162 AU from the Sun 2025 BD18
Seen from above the ecliptic, north up, to scale. Grid: Earth's orbit in blue. 2025 BD18 is 5.851 AU from Earth today (48.7 light-minutes).

In the sky

Right ascension
15h 58m 19s
Declination
-01° 19′ 07″
Constellation
Serpens
Distance from Earth
5.86 AU
Elongation from the Sun
42.31° — near the Sun — look low at dusk or dawn

Visible from both hemispheres.

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
5.681 AU
Eccentricity
0.4676
Inclination
21.52°
Orbital period
13.54 years
Perihelion
3.025 AU
Aphelion
8.338 AU
Longitude of ascending node
149.17°
Argument of periapsis
348.06°
Epoch · J2000
2461200.5
Orbit class · CEN
Centaur
Earth MOID · 794.6 LD
2.0418 AU
Tisserand (Jupiter)
2.634

Orbit quality

Orbit reasonably well determined (uncertainty code 4).

Observations used
21
Data arc
64 days
First observed
25 January 2025
Last observed
30 March 2025
Residual RMS
0.4 ″
Solution · Otto Matic
11 April 2025

Visual & observation

Absolute magnitude (H)
16.63

Discovery & classification

Centaur

Close approaches 2 on record

When (UTC) Body Distance Lunar distances Relative speed
2140-07-28 10:37:00 Satrn 1.5779 AU 614.1 LD 3.4 km/s

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

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