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Asteroid Near-Earth

2025 UF5

(2025 UF5)

Where is it now

Distance from Sun
1.035 AU
True anomaly
245.88°
Distance from Earth
0.07 AU
As of
2 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 — 1.001 AU from the Sun Earth 2025 UF5 — 1.035 AU from the Sun 2025 UF5
Seen from above the ecliptic, north up, to scale. Grid: Earth's orbit in blue. 2025 UF5 is 0.07 AU from Earth today (35.0 light-seconds).

In the sky

Right ascension
20h 22m 29s
Declination
+08° 32′ 03″
Constellation
Aquila
Distance from Earth
0.07 AU
Elongation from the Sun
116.39° — well clear of the Sun

Visible from both hemispheres.

From your location

See how high it is right now, whether it's up after dark, 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
1.005 AU
Eccentricity
0.0873
Inclination
3.34°
Orbital period
368.2 days
Perihelion
0.918 AU
Aphelion
1.093 AU
Longitude of ascending node
219.4°
Argument of periapsis
261.27°
Epoch · J2000
2461200.5
Orbit class · APO
Apollo
Earth MOID · 1.0 LD
0.0027 AU
Tisserand (Jupiter)
6.05

Orbit quality

Orbit poorly determined (uncertainty code 6).

Observations used
23
Data arc
24 hours
First observed
23 October 2025
Last observed
24 October 2025
Residual RMS
0.26 ″
Solution · Otto Matic
25 October 2025

Visual & observation

Absolute magnitude (H)
27.7

Discovery & classification

Apollo Near-Earth Object

Close approaches 23 on record

When (UTC) Body Distance Lunar distances Relative speed
2026-11-09 21:06:00 Earth 0.0483 AU 18.8 LD 1.9 km/s
2027-08-21 04:56:00 Earth 0.0952 AU 37.1 LD 2 km/s
2028-01-11 18:49:00 Earth 0.0836 AU 32.5 LD 2.2 km/s
2028-07-06 01:55:00 Earth 0.097 AU 37.8 LD 2.2 km/s
2029-05-18 04:25:00 Earth 0.0661 AU 25.7 LD 2 km/s
2030-04-22 11:28:00 Earth 0.0124 AU 4.8 LD 2.6 km/s
2031-04-21 23:52:00 Earth 0.0132 AU 5.1 LD 2.6 km/s
2032-05-14 14:28:00 Earth 0.0598 AU 23.3 LD 2.1 km/s
2033-01-11 15:49:00 Earth 0.0937 AU 36.5 LD 2.3 km/s
2033-07-01 10:14:00 Earth 0.0861 AU 33.5 LD 2 km/s

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

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