Is an asteroid passing Earth today?
Asteroids passing Earth today
Yes: 3 known asteroids pass within 19.5 lunar distances today. The closest is 2026 VP1, about 4–9 m, at 0.55 LD (211,377 km) at 14:05 UTC.
Thursday, November 5 (UTC). Closest this week: 2026 VP1 at 0.55 LD on Nov 5.
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Questions
Is there an asteroid passing Earth today?
Yes: 3 known asteroids pass within 19.5 lunar distances today. The closest is 2026 VP1, about 4–9 m, at 0.55 LD (211,377 km) at 14:05 UTC.
Is it dangerous?
No. Each listed flyby has a computed miss distance. Impact probabilities are published by NASA JPL's Sentry system, and none of today's objects is predicted to hit Earth. See the Sentry list.
Why are new asteroids added at short notice?
Objects a few metres to tens of metres across are too faint to see until they are close, so many are found within days of their flyby. This page is rebuilt every 6 hours with JPL's latest list.
Source: NASA/JPL Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), SBDB Close-Approach Data API. Data fetched 5 Nov 2026, 00:20 UTC; refreshed every 6 hours. Distances are from Earth's centre; 1 lunar distance (LD) = 384,400 km. Times are converted from JPL's TDB to UTC. Sizes are estimates from brightness (absolute magnitude H) for a dark to a bright surface, unless a diameter has been measured.