Asteroid (2013 HO11)
Closest pass on 2026-Oct-02 01:49 TDB (Julian Date: 2461315.575946848)
Key Facts
- On 2026-Oct-02 01:49, asteroid (2013 HO11) passed Earth at a nominal distance of 9,710,000 km (25.2 lunar distances).
- At closest approach, the object was traveling at 7.58 km/s relative to Earth.
- The object has an estimated size of 86.8 m, which is about the size of a Statue of Liberty.
- The miss distance was just over 25 times the distance to the Moon.
- Hazard classification: 50 to 140 meters. Reaches Earth surface to carve a crater over a kilometer wide (like Meteor Crater, Arizona), destroying infrastructure across an entire metropolitan region and generating damaging regional seismic waves.
Visual Scale Comparison
| Target | 87 m |
|---|---|
| Smaller | Boeing 747: 70.6 m |
| Larger | Statue of Liberty: 93 m |
Object size compared to known reference benchmarks.
Miss Distance Orbital Dial
Concentric orbital rings showing Earth, Moon orbit, and asteroid trajectory.
Astrometric & Orbital Parameters
| Designation | 2013 HO11 |
|---|---|
| Full Object Name | (2013 HO11) |
| Nominal Miss Distance | 9,710,000 km (25.2 lunar distances / 0.0648770541804454 au) |
| 3-Sigma Minimum Distance | 9,705,112.399 km (25.247 LD) |
| Relative Velocity (v_rel) | 7.57839174329912 km/s (about the speed of a ISS orbital velocity) |
| Velocity at Infinity (v_inf) | 7.57297049187596 km/s |
| Time Uncertainty (3-sigma) | < 00:01 |
| Absolute Magnitude (H) | 23.06 mag |
| Orbit Solution ID | 24 (NASA JPL Small-Body Database) |
| Inside Moon Orbit | No |
| Inside Geostationary Ring | No |
Cite this page
Permanent URL: https://whatnearlyhitus.com/approaches/2026-Oct-02/2013-ho11/ | Machine-readable twin: index.json
APA:
What Nearly Hit Us Project. (2026). Asteroid (2013 HO11) Close Approach on 2026-Oct-02 01:49. What Nearly Hit Us. Retrieved from https://whatnearlyhitus.com/approaches/2026-Oct-02/2013-ho11/MLA:
"Asteroid (2013 HO11) Close Approach on 2026-Oct-02 01:49." What Nearly Hit Us, What Nearly Hit Us Project, 2026-09-24, https://whatnearlyhitus.com/approaches/2026-Oct-02/2013-ho11/.BibTeX:
@misc{approach_2013HO11_202602,
title = {Asteroid (2013 HO11) Close Approach on 2026-Oct-02 01:49},
author = {{What Nearly Hit Us Project}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://whatnearlyhitus.com/approaches/2026-Oct-02/2013-ho11/},
note = {Primary upstream source: NASA/JPL CNEOS CAD API}
}