NASA Tracks Bus-Sized Asteroid as It Passes Inside Moon’s Orbit
WASHINGTON, May 22, 2026, 17:02 EDT Fresh data confirmed asteroid 2026 JH2 zipped past Earth on Monday, clearing the planet at close to 0.00061 astronomical units—about 91,000 km out. That’s around 0.24 times the distance to the moon, according to NASA’s radar planning site. One lunar distance equals the typical Earth-moon separation. (JPL Echo) This is significant—the object was detected
