Near-Earth Asteroid 2026 JH2 extremely close encounter: a new image – 17 May 2026.
We captured again the near-Earth asteroid 2026 JH2, about 24-hours before its flyby, and share this new picture here.
Near-Earth Asteroid 2026 JH2: 17 May 2026.
The image above comes from a single 300-second exposure, remotely taken with the Celestron C14+Paramount ME+SBIG ST10-XME robotic unit available as part of the Virtual Telescope Project in Manciano, Italy. The telescope tracked the apparent motion of the asteroid, showing as a dot in the center of the image, marked by an arrow: this is why the stars look like long streaks.
At the time of the image, asteroid 2026 JH2 was at about 810.000 kilometers from us and safely approaching our planet.
This 14-32 meter large asteroid will reach its minimum distance (about 91.000 km, 24% of the average lunar distance) from us on 18 May 2026, at 22:00 UTC (source: Nasa/JPL). Of course, there are no risks at all for our planet.
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