ATel 5801: Broadband Photometry of the Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 251346 (2007 SJ)
The 1200 - 2600 metre wide asteroid 2007 SJ will make a close pass (18.9 lunar distances, 0.0486 AU), travelling at 17.22 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st January 2014 @ 15:39 UT ±00:01.
See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
Ephemeris
Date TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2013 12 20 23 26 46.4 +38 51 59 0.1711 1.0272 99.9 70.6 15.6 2013 12 21 23 24 26.9 +38 39 16 0.1669 1.0222 98.6 72.1 15.6 2013 12 22 23 22 04.2 +38 25 59 0.1626 1.0173 97.3 73.5 15.6 2013 12 23 23 19 37.6 +38 12 01 0.1584 1.0125 96.0 75.0 15.5 2013 12 24 23 17 06.4 +37 57 18 0.1541 1.0079 94.7 76.6 15.5 2013 12 25 23 14 29.9 +37 41 43 0.1498 1.0033 93.3 78.1 15.5 2013 12 26 23 11 47.2 +37 25 08 0.1454 0.9989 91.9 79.8 15.5 2013 12 27 23 08 57.2 +37 07 26 0.1411 0.9946 90.4 81.4 15.5 2013 12 28 23 05 59.1 +36 48 26 0.1367 0.9905 89.0 83.1 15.5 2013 12 29 23 02 51.6 +36 27 56 0.1323 0.9865 87.5 84.8 15.5 2013 12 30 22 59 33.4 +36 05 44 0.1278 0.9826 85.9 86.6 15.4 2013 12 31 22 56 03.3 +35 41 33 0.1234 0.9789 84.3 88.5 15.4