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From SpaceWeather.com, the top of their list of Near Earth Asteroid encounters for the last few days and upcoming weeks. The entries are colour coded from a light yellow for passes that are more than 5 LD (“lunar distance”), to dark red/salmon for encounters that are less than 1 LD. There’s a lot of red entries these days. Fun thing to do - click on an asteroid and compare the encounter date with the first observation date. These are often detected *after* they swoosh past us. (e.g. 2026 J01 missed us by 0.3 LD on May 7. It was first observed on May 8…)