About 2025 VP
2025 VP is a rare neo. It swings within 1.009 AU of the Sun at perihelion.
An Apollo-class object: its orbit is wider than Earth's but crosses it. Most known Earth-crossers belong to this family.
Rare neo 39 EP
2025 VP
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Score breakdown
· 6 badgesRare 50 pts → Epic
- Potentially hazardous +12
- Wildly elliptical orbit +10
- Retrograde orbit +8
- Near-Earth object +5
- Apollo: crosses Earth's orbit +4
- Catalogue designation only +0
Total score 39
11 more points to reach Epic.
Badges
- Near-Earth object · +5
- Potentially hazardous · +12
- Retrograde orbit · +8
- Wildly elliptical orbit · +10
- Catalogue designation only
- Apollo: crosses Earth's orbit · +4
Trivia
Hard to believe
- Against the traffic. It goes round the Sun backwards, against the direction every planet and almost everything else travels.
Handle with care
- What 'hazardous' means. 'Potentially hazardous' is bookkeeping, not a prediction: it means the orbit passes within 0.05 AU of Earth's and the body is big enough to matter. Nothing on that list is known to be on a collision course.
- If it ever hit. A rock this size arriving at a typical 20 km/s would release around 83.7 thousand megatons — enough to devastate a region the size of a small country.
What it actually is
- Its orbit family. An Apollo-class object: its orbit is wider than Earth's but crosses it. Most known Earth-crossers belong to this family.
- Closest approach. At its nearest it comes within 1.01 AU of the Sun — inside the orbit of Mars.
- One lap. A single orbit around the Sun takes it about 25.2 years.
- How far it roams. Its orbit swings between 1.01 and 16.2 AU from the Sun.
Sense of scale
- Sense of scale. In everyday terms it is roughly 0.1× the height of Mount Everest.
Properties
- aphelion au
- 16.2
- designation
- 2025 VP
- eccentricity
- 0.8827
- full name
- (2025 VP)
- h mag
- 17.57
- inclination
- 134
- mean motion deg day
- 0.039
- moid au
- 0.0274
- name
- 2025 VP
- number only
- yes
- orbit class
- APO
- perihelion au
- 1.009
- pha
- yes
- semi major au
- 8.605
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, 2025 VP is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. Because it moves against the background stars, the live position panel on this page tracks where it is right now. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
Why 2025 VP is a rare neo
2025 VP scores 39 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 11 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 6 science badges — Near-Earth object, Potentially hazardous, Retrograde orbit, Wildly elliptical orbit, Catalogue designation only and Apollo: crosses Earth's orbit — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.