{"id":590388,"date":"2026-05-18T10:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/590388\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:24:08","slug":"2026-jh2-newly-discovered-asteroid-to-fly-close-to-earth-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/590388\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 JH2: Newly discovered asteroid to fly close to Earth this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">2026 JH2 was first spotted last week by the Mount Lemmon Survey, an astronomical project based at the Mount Lemmon Observatory in the US state of Arizona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has been classified as a near-Earth asteroid and is set to get within around 50,000 miles of Earth when it flies past our planet on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That&#8217;s around a quarter of the distance between Earth and the Moon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Experts think that 2026 JH2 is between 16 &#8211; 35 metres wide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is too faint to be seen with the human eye, but as it makes its closest approach to Earth, it should be visible through a telescope from some parts of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 JH2 was first spotted last week by the Mount Lemmon Survey, an astronomical project based at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-590388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}