Asteroid 2024 CR9 was discovered by the Panstarrs survey on February 15, 2024. The asteroid is 330m-750m in size. At the time of imaging, it was 7. 8 million km from Earth and slowly approaching. It will reach its minimum distance of 7. 4 million km from Earth on June 11, 2024, at 00:02 UTC. This distance is 19 times the average lunar distance.
There are no risks to Earth from the asteroid.
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The image above comes from the combination of three, 600-second exposures, remotely taken with the Celestron C14+Paramount ME+SBIG ST8-XME robotic unit available as part of the Virtual Telescope Project in Manciano, Italy. The telescope tracked the apparent motion of the asteroid, so it looks like a sharp dot of light, indicated with a white arrow, while stars leave bright streaks on the background.
At the imaging time, the asteroid was just 8 degrees above the Southern horizon.
At the imaging time, asteroid 2024 CR9 was at about 7.8 million of km from us, slowly approaching us. This asteroid was discovered by the Panstarrs survey on 15 Feb. 2024.
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