{"id":616799,"date":"2026-09-07T02:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T02:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/616799\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T02:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T02:04:10","slug":"imminent-earth-impactor-cernq52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/616799\/","title":{"rendered":"Imminent Earth Impactor: CERNQ52"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.LeonardDavid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Impact_CERNQ52_11_2026-09-06T111847.668.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49425\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49425\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Impact_CERNQ52_11_2026-09-06T111847.668-350x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-49425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image credit: European Space Agency\u2019s Planetary Defense Office\/Near-Earth Objects Coordination Center<\/p>\n<p>The European Space Agency\u2019s Planetary Defense Office\/Near-Earth Objects Coordination Center has published the following Imminent Imactor based on 11 observations:<\/p>\n<p>Imminent Impactor: CERNQ52<\/p>\n<p>The Imminent Impactors page contains a list of the confirmed impacting objects detected by ESA\u2019s Meerkat monitoring system in the last 15 days.<\/p>\n<p>Meerkat computes impact solutions using the systematic ranging method. For each impactor, the table provides the nominal impact time, the nominal magnitude of the asteroid, and its nominal diameter based on an assumed albedo between 0.05 and 0.25. Additionally, the image displays the discovery station, the first and last observation, the number of observations processed, and the median impact time with its time range.<\/p>\n<p>Nominal impact date and time: 2026-09-06 16:12:15 UTC<\/p>\n<p>Diameter range in meters: 0.6 \u2013 1.2<\/p>\n<p>Please note: In a new posting, there are now 13 observations. The chart used in this imminent impactor states \u201cObject is not confirmed. Do not distribute\u201d while a line in the original posting says \u201cPlease feel free to forward this notification to potentially interested parties.\u201d So pick one\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image credit: European Space Agency\u2019s Planetary Defense Office\/Near-Earth Objects Coordination Center The European Space Agency\u2019s Planetary Defense Office\/Near-Earth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-616799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}