2020 CD3 live position and data

This page shows Asteroid 2020 CD3 (Earth's minimoon) location and other relevant astronomical data in real time. The celestial coordinates, magnitude, distances and speed are updated in real time and are computed using high quality data sets provided by the JPL Horizons ephemeris service (see acknowledgements for details). The sky map shown below represents a rectangular portion of the sky 60x40 arcminutes wide. By comparison the diameter of the full Moon is about 30 arcmins, so the full horizontal extent of the map is approximately 2 full Moons wide. Depending on the device you are using, the map can be dragged horizondally or vertically using the mouse or touchscreen. The deep sky image in the background is provided by the Digitized Sky Survey (acknowledgements).

Current close conjunctions

List of bright objects (stars brighter than magnitude 9.0 and galaxies brighter than magmitude 14.0) close to Asteroid 2020 CD3 (Earth's minimoon) (less than 1.5 degrees):

Type	Name	Magnitude	Ar	Dec
Star	HIP 6001	0	01h 17m 11s	+09° 30’ 04”
Star	HIP 6570	0	01h 24m 25s	+08° 26’ 14”
Star	HIP 6195	7.8002	01h 19m 28s	+08° 23’ 46”
Star	HIP 6154	7.8678	01h 18m 57s	+07° 25’ 49”
Star	HIP 6307	8.6156	01h 21m 03s	+07° 36’ 21”
Star	HIP 6363	7.916	01h 21m 44s	+09° 42’ 21”
Star	HIP 6205	8.3156	01h 19m 32s	+07° 29’ 26”
Star	HIP 5888	8.0838	01h 15m 37s	+08° 46’ 04”
Star	HIP 6372	8.6936	01h 21m 52s	+08° 32’ 59”
Star	HIP 6513	8.2824	01h 23m 40s	+08° 11’ 21”
Star	HIP 6454	7.2608	01h 22m 56s	+07° 25’ 07”
Star	HIP 6268	8.2448	01h 20m 22s	+09° 31’ 24”
Star	HIP 6462	7.3906	01h 23m 06s	+09° 11’ 15”
Galaxy	NGC 489	13.5	01h 21m 53s	+09° 12’ 20”
Galaxy	NGC 502	13.7	01h 22m 55s	+09° 02’ 53”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about Asteroid 2020 CD3 (Earth's minimoon)

• 15 Days Ephemerides
• Interactive Sky Map (Planetarium)
• Rise & Set Times
• Distance from Earth
• Light Curve
• Orbital Elements

Astronomy databases

This online sky chart is created using the following astronomy databases and services:

1. The Digitized Sky Survey, a photographic survey of the whole sky created using images from different telescopes, including the Oschin Schmidt Telescope on Palomar Mountain
2. The Hipparcos Star Catalogue, containing more than 100.000 bright stars
3. The PGC 2003 Catalogue, containing information about 1 million galaxies
4. The GSC 2.3 Catalogue, containing information about more than 2 billion stars and galaxies

Please see the acknowledgements section.

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