Asteroid (433) Eros is at Opposition in the constellation Hydra on the 1st March, 2012.
Magnitude: 9.2 Relative velocity: 5.52 km/s Distance to Earth: 0.225 AU = 87.7 lunar distances Distance to Sun: 1.180 AU
This opposition is observable mostly from the southern hemisphere. The asteroid will pass close to the binary star Theta Antliae (HD 84367) in the constellation Antlia on the 10th March, 2012. The animation is 6 hour steps from the 1st to the 13th March
Asteroid 433 Eros was discovered on the same night (13 August 1898) by Gustav Witt in Berlin and Auguste Charlois at Nice. Witt was taking a 2-hour exposure of Beta Aquarii to secure astrometric positions of asteroid 185 Eunike. Read more