House-sized asteroid to skim Earth tonight, no danger expected
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A 16-meter asteroid named 2026 GD will pass Earth tonight at about 0.65 lunar distances (roughly 156,000 miles) and then come within about 101,000 miles of the Moon later that evening, posing no threat to Earth or the Moon; it is on the ESA Risk List but carries an extremely small cumulative impact probability, and it won’t affect the Artemis 2 mission; the asteroid will continue on a long orbit with a next close approach expected around July 2031 near Venus.
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