2024 U2

ASTEROIDHyperbolic asteroid

ILLUSTRATION · NO MEASURED PROPERTIES

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OVERVIEW

] ASTEROID

2024 U2 is a hyperbolic asteroid. Its absolute magnitude () is 11.56. Its orbit does not close: it passes within 8.179 of the Sun once and never returns. It is catalogued as (A/2024 U2).

WHAT IT IS
Hyperbolic asteroid
HOW BRIGHT IN ITSELF (H)

How bright it would look from a fixed, standard distance — a measure of the object rather than of the view from here.

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CATALOG DATA

] 10 FIELDS

The raw catalogue values, as the source published them, with the error bars where one was published — sorted by what each set of figures is about rather than by the order they happened to be stored in.

THE ORBIT

The shape of the path, where the object sits on it, and the instant those figures were true of. An orbit is a fit to observations and drifts away from the real one either side of its epoch.

Eccentricity
Inclination
120.66
Longitude of ascending node
56.07
Argument of perihelion
29.8
Mean anomaly
0
Element epoch
2460815.5000
Perihelion passage
2461055.4000
Minimum distance from Earth's orbit
7.28
Orbit class
HYA

WHEN IT WAS FOUND

Who first saw it, from where, and by what method.

First observed
2024-10-26
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ALSO KNOWN AS

] 2 DESIGNATIONS
  • Asteroid 2024 U2
  • Asteroid (A/2024 U2)
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LOOK IT UP ELSEWHERE

] 1 SERVICE

Each link carries the identifier printed beside it. Nothing on this page is a measurement of our own, so a number that disagrees with one of these is worth reporting — and a service that has never catalogued this object under this name will say so plainly.

  • JPL Small-Body Database2024

    The orbit these elements were taken from, with its uncertainty, its close approaches and every observation behind the fit.

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CITE THIS PAGE

] DR1

This page is live and its numbers move when an upstream refreshes, so the citation names the release the rows belong to rather than the day you read them. The release itself is frozen, republished as a bundle, and is what a data-availability statement should point at.

PLAIN TEXT
SpaceCatalog. 2024 U2 [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/2024-u2
BIBTEX
@misc{spacecatalog_2024-u2,
  author       = {{SpaceCatalog}},
  title        = {{2024 U2}},
  howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/2024-u2},
  note         = {Catalogue entry, data release DR1 (2026-08-21). Values from JPL Small-Body Database.}
}

The values above were taken from JPL Small-Body Database — Public domain (NASA/JPL). Citing this page does not replace citing that catalogue.