
Basketball-court-sized asteroid to skim past Earth closer than the Moon
A 16–35 metre near-Earth asteroid named 2026 JH2 will pass about 90,000 km from Earth on May 18, 2026—roughly a quarter of the Earth–Moon distance— posing no danger and may be visible with a small telescope (mag ~11.5). It was discovered May 10 by the Mt. Lemmon Survey and will be tracked with a livestream by the Virtual Telescope project.