NASA’s asteroid dashboard has a 170-foot visitor to track tomorrow

NASA JPL’s next-five-approaches dashboard lists a roughly 170-foot asteroid called 2026 TS at an estimated 564,000 miles from Earth on October 18.

That is a little more than twice the Moon’s average distance. It is a close approach by astronomy standards, not a collision warning.

The useful discovery is the live dashboard itself. It gives dates, approximate sizes and distances for ordinary flybys and is worth bookmarking.

Action: check tomorrow’s entry and compare the distance with the Moon’s roughly 239,000 miles.