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How Did We Miss the Asteroid That Will Narrowly Miss Us?

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An asteroid, identified only a few days earlier, will pass a few tens of thousands of kilometers from the Earth, on the night of May 18-19. The projectile of the size of a small building does not represent any danger to our planet, assure the experts. - "A fairly common phenomenon": an imposing asteroid will approach "safe" the Earth tonight (Sciences).

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An asteroid - 2026 JH2 - is about to pass Earth Monday at 21.30 GMT (Tuesday, 0.30 Romania's time) at a distance smaller than the Moon's trajectory.

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Asteroid 2026 JH2 was first discovered on May 10th by a telescope at the Mount Lemmon Survey Observatory in Arizona, USA. It belongs to a group of near-Earth objects (NEOs), orbiting the Sun in an elliptical orbit with a period of about 3.7 years. It is estimated to have a diameter of 15-35 meters and travel at a speed of about 32,000 km/h. NASA assures that there is no risk of impact with our planet, although the distance of 90,000 kilometers i…

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The maximum expected proximity to 23.57 Italian (ANSA)

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ANSA broke the news in Italy on Monday, May 18, 2026.
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