| Minorplanet: | yes |
| Background: |
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| Discovered: | 6 December 1997 |
| Epoch: | 13 September 2023 (JD 2453300.5) |
| Uncertainty: | 0 |
| Observation Arc: | 33.19 yr (12,121 days) |
| Aphelion: | 2.139abbr=unitNaNabbr=unit |
| Perihelion: | 0.7446AU |
| Time Periastron: | 26 June 2023 |
| Semimajor: | 1.442AU |
| Eccentricity: | 0.48369 |
| Period: | 1.73 yr (633 days) |
| Inclination: | 4.0995° |
| Asc Node: | 213.65° |
| Arg Peri: | 103.06° |
| Mean Motion: | / day |
| Moid: | 0.0003AU |
(provisional designation ) is a kilometer-sized asteroid, classified as a near-Earth object, Mars-crosser and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group.
| 2028-Oct-26 06:44 | Earth | ± 106 km | ||
| 2028-Oct-26 07:39 | Moon | ± 106 km |
Three months after its discovery on 6 December 1997 by James V. Scotti of the University of Arizona's Spacewatch Project, the asteroid was predicted to make an exceptionally close approach to Earth on 28 October 2028. Additional precovery observations of the asteroid from 1990 were quickly found that refined the orbit and it is now known the asteroid will pass Earth on 26 October 2028, at a distance of 929000abbr=onNaNabbr=on. During the close approach, the asteroid should peak at about apparent magnitude 8.2, and will be visible in binoculars.
measures between 0.7 and 1.4 kilometers in diameter.
This asteroid also regularly comes near the large asteroid Pallas.
On 11 March 1998, using a three-month observation arc, a faulty International Astronomical Union circular and press information sheet were put out that incorrectly concluded "that the asteroid was 'virtually certain' to pass within 80% of the distance to the Moon and stood a 'small...not entirely out of the question' possibility of hitting the Earth in 2028." But by 23 December 1997, it should have been clear that XF11 had no reasonable possibility of an Earth impact. Many news outlets mistakenly emphasized the possibility of disaster.[1]
Within hours of the announcement, independent calculations by Paul Chodas, Don Yeomans, and Karri Muinonen had calculated that the probability of Earth impact was essentially zero, and vastly less than the probability of impact from as-yet-undiscovered asteroids. Chodas (1999) concurs with Marsden (1999) that based on the 1997 data alone there was about 1 chance in a hundred thousand that XF11 could have been on an Earth-impact trajectory—that is, until the 1990 precovery observations eliminated such possibilities. During the October 2002 close approach, the asteroid was observed by the 70-meter Goldstone radar dish, further refining the orbit.