Q152422

Also known as (398) Admete, Admete

main-belt asteroid

Picture of the Day · NASA

Jupiter and Venus from Earth

2026-06-07

It was visible around the world. The sunset conjunction of Jupiter (left) and Venus (right) in 2012 was visible almost no matter where you lived on Earth. Anyone on our planet with a clear western horizon at sunset could see them. That year, a creative photographer traveled away from the town lights of Szubin, Poland to photograph a near closest approach of the two planets. The bright planets were then separated by only three degrees and his daughter struck a humorous pose. A faint red sunset still glowed in the background. Jupiter and Venus are together again this week after sunset, passing within a degree of each other about two days from today.

Key facts

Discovered by: A. Charlois
Discovery site: Nice Observatory
Discovery date: 28 December 1894
Pronunciation: / æ d ˈ m iː t iː /
Named after: Admete (Greek mythology)
Alternative designations: 1894 BN · 1951 LP, 1952 QC 1 · A907 RE

Article

398 Admete, provisional designation 1894 BN, is a dark, carbonaceous asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, about 47 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 28 December 1894, by French astronomer Auguste Charlois at Nice Observatory in south-eastern France.

The dark C-type asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.1–3.4 AU once every four years and six months (1,656 days). Its orbit shows an eccentricity of 0.22, and it is tilted by ten degrees to the plane of the ecliptic. The body's surface has a low albedo of 0.06, a typical value for carbonaceous asteroids.