Near-Earth object / ID: 2003200

Object: 3200 Phaethon

3200 Phaethon is a near-Earth object of the APO orbit class — Near-Earth asteroid orbits which cross the Earth’s orbit similar to that of 1862 Apollo. Radar and photometric estimates put it between 3.5km - 7.9km across. It has been followed since 1983-10-27 across 7942 recorded observations. Its next approach to Earth is 2050-Dec-11 19:44, passing at 32.122 LD. JPL classifies it as a potentially hazardous asteroid, a label driven by its size and how close its orbit comes to ours — not by a predicted impact.

Data source: NASA NeoWs API