June 17, 2026
Asteroid flyby alert: 2003 LN6, roughly as long as a comm... — June 17, 2026
Asteroid flyby alert: 2003 LN6, roughly as long as a commercial airliner, passes roughly 3 times the Moon's distance tomorrow. These close approaches happen ...
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Caalaroga Shark Media. This is space news and weather today.
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Saturn rises before midnight now, its famous rings visible through
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even small telescopes. Jupiter follows in the early morning hours,
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preparing for its summer appearance. The Moon is at first quarter,
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half lit and setting around midnight, perfect for evening observing,
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bright enough to see detail, dark enough later for deep
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sky objects. Scorpius crawls above the southern horizon, its curved
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tail unmistakable. The red super giant Antares marks the scorpion's heart,
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a star so large it would engulf Mars if placed
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at our Sun's position. Ariana's Pace has an Ariane sixty
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four on the pad at Guiana Space Center, French Guiana
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to fly later today Asteroid fly by Alert two thousand
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and three l N six roughly as long as a
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commercial airliner passes roughly three times the Moon's distance tomorrow.
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These close approaches happen weekly. Astronomers track thousands of them
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up on the International Space Station. Twelve people are orbiting
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Earth right now, including Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy
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Caldwell Dyson. Every ninety minutes, they circle the planet two
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hundred and fifty miles overhead. Quick solar update. The Sun
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is quite active, with numerous sunspot groups visible. That means
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a moderate chance of northern lights tonight for those in
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northern latitudes. Look north after dark if skies are clear.
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narrate information from NASA and spaceflight news sources around on
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