2022 FD1 is a small, metre-sized Apollo near-Earth asteroid that was eclipsed by Earth and made its closest approach 8,470 km (5,260 mi) from Earth's surface on 25 March 2022. It entered Earth's shadow at 8:10 UTC and became invisible until egress at 8:45 UTC. Its brightness from Earth reached a peak apparent magnitude of 13 shortly before closest approach at 09:13 UTC. By that time, the asteroid was moving at a speed of 18.5 km/s (11.5 mi/s) relative to Earth and was located in the far Southern hemisphere sky.
2022 FD1 was discovered on 24 March 2022, by astronomer Krisztián Sárneczky at Konkoly Observatory's Piszkéstető Station in Budapest, Hungary. It was his next near-Earth asteroid discovery after the impactor 2022 EB5 from early March 2022.
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- 2022 FD1 at NeoDyS-2, Near Earth Objects—Dynamic Site
- Ephemerides · Observation prediction · Orbital info · MOID · Proper elements · Observational info · Close approaches · Physical info · Orbit animation
- 2022 FD1 at ESA–space situational awareness
- Ephemerides · Observations · Orbit · Physical properties · Summary
- 2022 FD1 at the JPL Small-Body Database
