Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors

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NASA Tracking Skyscraper-sized Asteroid Approaching Earth Today
By Soo Kim
June 1, 2026

Introduction:

(Newsweek) NASA is monitoring a building-sized asteroid that’s hurtling towards our planet at around 30,200 miles per hour, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS).

Spanning around 410 feet across, the asteroid known as “2026 KB1” is expected to make its closest approach later today at around 2.4 million miles from the Earth, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

The skyscraper-sized space rock is not the only asteroid within the vicinity of the Earth today. NASA is also tracking three plane-sized asteroids, called “2026 KV,” “2026 JN,” and “2026 KO3,” which are also approaching the Earth today. Their closest approaches range from around 2.4 million miles to around 4.1 million miles, the JPL notes.

Read more here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technol ... 28&ei=63

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Secretive Chinese probe snaps first photo of Earth's mysterious 'quasi-moon' — and it may pose a big problem

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A secretive Chinese spacecraft has captured the first-ever close-up photo of one of Earth's temporary "quasi-moons" after arriving there for a potential first-of-its-kind landing.

The space probe is supposed to scoop up samples from the newly imaged space rock and return them to Earth next year. However, the blurry photo and the timing of its release hint that this may be trickier than initially thought.

https://www.livescience.com/space/space ... ig-problem



China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft captured this photo of the quasi-moon Kamo'oalewa (a.k.a. 2016 HO3) at a distance of around 12.5 miles (20 kilometers) from the near-Earth asteroid.
(Image credit: CNSA)

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