Basketball-court-sized asteroid to skim Earth tonight, watch via livestream
TL;DR
An asteroid the size of a basketball court, designated 2026 JH2, will pass closer to Earth than the Moon this evening and will be visible with small telescopes from the Northern Hemisphere, though it’ll be low in the sky after sunset; there’s no danger, and the Virtual Telescope Project will stream the closest approach starting at 19:45 UTC.
- Watch tonight's asteroid near-miss live online, as the enormous space rock zips past our planet BBC Sky at Night Magazine
- Newly discovered asteroid to pass closer to Earth than the moon Monday NBC News
- Near-Earth Object 2026 JH2 Ranks Zero on the Loeb Scale Avi Loeb – Medium
- Asteroid 2026 JH2 Is About to Fly Right Past Earth—Relatively Speaking WIRED
- How Did We Miss the Asteroid That Will Narrowly Miss Us? Nautilus | Science
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