2020 LD
2020 LD is an Apollo near-Earth asteroid roughly in diameter. It was discovered on 7 June 2020 when the asteroid was about from Earth and had a solar elongation of 154 degrees. The glare of the Sun had masked the approach of the asteroid since November 2019. The asteroid passed closest approach to Earth on 5 June 2020 at a distance of . The close approach distance is now known with an accuracy of roughly ± 1000 km. This is the largest asteroid to pass closer than the Moon this year and possibly the largest since in November 2011. The asteroid makes close approaches to Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. It will be brighter than apparent magnitude 24 until 18 July 2020.

With a short 6 day observation arc it was possible that the asteroid had passed from Earth in June 1918 or would pass from Venus in April 2024.

With a 11-day observation arc, the Sentry Risk Table lists a 1 in 9 million chance of impact on 7 June 2109.

 is another similarly sized asteroid whose close approach will not be masked by the Sun this year.
Q207391
Apollo
Concept
Q265392
near-Earth asteroid
Concept
Q271439
solar elongation
UNK
Q308
Mercury
CEL
Q313
Venus
CEL
Q2
Earth
CEL
Q111
Mars
CEL
None
apparent magnitude 24
UNK
Q16333724
observation arc
UNK
Q3478803
Sentry Risk Table
MISC
Q96252852
2020 LD
CEL
2020-06-07T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
7 June 2020
DATE
2019-11-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
November 2019
DATE
2020-06-05T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
5 June 2020
DATE
2011-11-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
November 2011
DATE
2020-07-18T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
18 July 2020
DATE
1918-06-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
June 1918
DATE
2024-04-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
April 2024
DATE
2109-06-07T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
7 June 2109
DATE
+2020^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
2020
NUMBER
+1000^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
1000
NUMBER
+24^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
24
NUMBER
+6^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
6
NUMBER
+11^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
11
NUMBER
+1^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
1
NUMBER
+9^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
9
NUMBER
time of discovery or invention