An asteroid discovered days ago will narrowly miss Earth – RNZ News

srean

''' "2026JH2 will pass safely by the Earth," he said in an email. "This is actually a rather normal occurrence, car-sized objects pass between the Earth and the Moon every week. At the size of a school bus, these pass through our neighborhood several times per year. We are only recently developing surveys that are sensitive enough to see them," he added, noting that before these surveys, objects of this kind would simply zoom by completely unnoticed''' Photo caption, on the other hand, says "We may not notice them, but it's not usual for a bus-size asteroid to pass through our earthly neighborhood several times every year."

gmuslera

"Narrowly", missing a ball of 12k km of diameter by 90k km.