Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  M 60  ·  NGC 4647  ·  NGC 4649
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Asteroid 2014 JO25, Fabian Rodriguez Frustaglia
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Asteroid 2014 JO25

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Asteroid 2014 JO25

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2014 JO25 - "The rock"

The peanut-shaped asteroid dubbed 2014 JO25, nicknamed "The Rock", is 1300m across and streaked past Earth on 19th April 2017.

It hurtled past at around 120,000 km/h just over 1.6 million kw away or 5 times the distance Earth-Moon.

This asteroid was spotted by the Catalina Sky Survey, a USA program that uses two telescopes in Arizona to detect potentially dangerous near-Earth objects (NEOs).

I had manage to image "The Rock" on 20th April at 10:35pm, Perth time, while it was flying in front of Messier 60 and NGC 4647 (two galaxies that are part of the Virgo Cluster) at magnitude 11.33.

This image is a composite of 10 one minute images.

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