Leonard David's INSIDE OUTER SPACE

Image credit: European Space Agency’s Planetary Defense Office/Near-Earth Objects Coordination Center

The European Space Agency’s Planetary Defense Office/Near-Earth Objects Coordination Center has published the following Imminent Imactor based on 11 observations:

Imminent Impactor: CERNQ52

The Imminent Impactors page contains a list of the confirmed impacting objects detected by ESA’s Meerkat monitoring system in the last 15 days.

Meerkat computes impact solutions using the systematic ranging method. For each impactor, the table provides the nominal impact time, the nominal magnitude of the asteroid, and its nominal diameter based on an assumed albedo between 0.05 and 0.25. Additionally, the image displays the discovery station, the first and last observation, the number of observations processed, and the median impact time with its time range.

Nominal impact date and time: 2026-09-06 16:12:15 UTC

Diameter range in meters: 0.6 – 1.2

Please note: In a new posting, there are now 13 observations. The chart used in this imminent impactor states “Object is not confirmed. Do not distribute” while a line in the original posting says “Please feel free to forward this notification to potentially interested parties.” So pick one…