(also written
2015 AZ43) is an
Apollo
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near-Earth asteroid
A near-Earth object (NEO) is any small Solar System body whose orbit brings it into proximity with Earth. By convention, a Solar System body is a NEO if its closest approach to the Sun (perihelion) is less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU). ...
roughly 70 meters in diameter. On 10 February 2015 with a 29.5-day
observation arc
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, it showed a 1 in 5,880 chance of
impacting Earth on 27 February 2107.
[ However, the NEODyS ]nominal
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best-fit orbit shows that will be from Earth on 27 February 2107.absolute magnitude
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of 23.5,[ the asteroid is about 50–120 meters in diameter.]
2015 flyby
was discovered on 11 January 2015 by Pan-STARRS at an apparent magnitude
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of 20 using a Ritchey–Chrétien telescope
A Ritchey–Chrétien telescope (RCT or simply RC) is a specialized variant of the Cassegrain telescope that has a hyperbolic primary mirror and a hyperbolic secondary mirror designed to eliminate off-axis optical errors (coma). The RCT has a wi ...
.[ The Goldstone Deep Space Network detected the asteroid on 18–19 February 2015, but the signal was not strong enough for delay-Doppler imaging.]
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