Asteroid 2026 JH2 close pass #space #nasa

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]Near Earth asteroid 2026 JH2 is scheduled to pass well inside the moon's orbit on May 18th, but it will still miss Earth by a wide margin, about 90,000 km at closest approach, according to reporting cited in the briefing.

[00:00:14]Estimates place it in the tens of meters size range, meaning it's not the doomsday object some headlines imply.

[00:00:20]And current orbit solutions show zero impact risk for this flyby.

[00:00:24]The real takeaway is how quickly modern surveys can spot a new object, compute its trajectory, and communicate a confident forecast days ahead of the close pass.