JPL Warns Of Newly Discovered Space Rock To Pass By Earth May 11th 2026!

James Kaufman with a news report today. Mr. Kaufman, JPL, our Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has just announced a new, fairly large, near-Earth object, a space rock. It's set to fly between Earth and the Sun at some point tomorrow. It's a fairly large rock, between 40 and 50 feet in diameter, they think. You can see it's in the inner solar system here. Let's zoom in and take a look. Mars and inside of Mars is considered the inner solar system, let's see it's going to just about join Earth here tomorrow. Now 2026 JD1, it's the name of this near-Earth object, space rock, meteor and again it's about 40 to 50 feet diameter it's moving at a very good clip at about 14.2 kilometers per second, uh we're going to see if it's going to go closer to the moon than Earth let's hope it stays away from both celestial objects, all right this is a crazy one, looks like the solution date is today, May 10th, very very late on the day, that 19.7, 128 observations over a one-day period, seen from only April 9th, not seen today. Condition code 7. A condition code of 0 means they know exactly where the rock is going. Condition code of 9 means they have no idea. And obviously 7 is much closer to a 9 than a 0. So there's a lot of questions about the path of this rock and how large it is and the speed of this rock. It was spotted by our automatic software, our AI software, and, well, we're going to get some close approach data and see when they think it's going to bend between the Earth and the Moon here. Again, 2026 JD1, newly discovered, just released to the public. All right, they were not able to extrapolate much, but they do have the two flybys here, and it looks like it's going to be about 0.002 astronomical units from Earth, and about 0.003 astronomical units from the moon, so it's just going to go right in between the two. JPL says a close approach for Earth's 12.04 UTC time, and we're going to have to take 0.7 there. About 5 in the morning tonight, 5.04 in the morning, if they have it done fairly well and five hours after that it'll be approaching the moon again minimal distances here are 0.002 astronomical units and 0.003 astronomical units and it's moving right at 14 kilometers per second all right so there you have it folks newly discovered 2026 JD1, will be passing, hopefully, by Earth here in, well, about 12 hours, and hopefully it will stay away from the Moon and Earth. Again, the condition code of 7 is the only thing that worries me, meaning they don't feel like they have really good information concerning this near-Earth object, space rock or meteor. thanks for joining us folks please give us a thumbs up and always remember that anything's possible bizarro world