This bot posts daily updates on Earth's distances from its awkward neighbors, along with other bizarre weekly bulletins from the solar system.
Data sources:
- JPL Horizons (ephemerides)
- Launch Library 2 (launches, space stations)
- NOAA (space weather)
- NASA Image and Video Library
- CelesTrak (satcat)
- NASA MMGIS (Perseverance)
- NASA GSFC PSG (Mars weather simulation)
- CNEOS (fireballs)
- JPL Sentry (asteroid impacts)
- Bill Gray (F9)
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2026-05-23 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-22)
☄️10P/TEMPEL 2
- Barycentric speed: 28.67 km/s (+0.06 km/s)
- Perihelion in: 70 days
- Closest approach to Earth in: 72 days
- Brightness (Mag): 15.16 (-0.03)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Small/medium telescope | Dark sky
🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 121,448,432.62 km (-1,517,590.43 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.81 (-0.01)
- Light travel time: 6 min 45.12 s (-5.06 s)
2026-05-23 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-22)
☄️88P/HOWELL
- Barycentric speed: 29.55 km/s (-0.06 km/s)
- Perihelion - occured
- Closest approach to Earth in: 139 days
- Brightness (Mag): 15.05 (+0.01)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Small/medium telescope | Dark sky
🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 291,246,706.47 km (-74,476.81 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.95 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 16 min 11.52 s (-0.25 s)
2026-05-23 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-22)
☄️C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS
- Barycentric speed: 44.27 km/s (-0.42 km/s)
- Perihelion - occured
- Closest approach to Earth - occurred
- Brightness (Mag): 11.90 (+0.15)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Small telescope | Urban sky
🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 185,896,076.57 km (+4,901,947.65 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.24 (+0.03)
- Light travel time: 10 min 20.10 s (+16.35 s)
THE WEEKLY SPIN
21/2026
2026-05-23 00:00:00 UTC (Delta: 24 hours)
WHERE IS 2025-010D?
- Discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage on lunar intercept
- Geocentric speed: 0.73 km/s (+0.01 km/s)
- Lunar impact in: 74 days
⚪ Relative to Moon
- Distance: 636,164.27 km (-42,726.66 km)
- Lunar distance: 1.65 LD (-0.11 LD)
- Light travel time: 2.12 s (-0.14 s)
🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance: 537,404.67 km (-7,097.57 km)
- Light travel time: 1.79 s (-0.02 s)
2026-05-23 00:00:00 UTC
HOW IS SPACE WEATHER NOW?
CURRENT CONDITIONS:
🟢 Solar Wind: 365.5 km/s (1 h avg)
FORECAST FOR TODAY:
🟢 Radio Blackout: R0
- No effects
🟢 Solar Radiation Storm: S0
- No effects
🟢 Geomagnetic Storm: G0
- No effects
2026-05-23 00:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-22)
INTERSTELLAR VISITOR: 3I/ATLAS
- Barycentric speed: 60.03 km/s (-0.01 km/s)
- Crossing the Saturn's orbit in: 48 days
🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 1,214,742,934.25 km (+6,833,116.67 km)
- Distance (AU): 8.12 (+0.05)
- Light travel time: 1 h 7 min 32.07 s (+22.79 s)
2026-05-23 00:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-22)
SUN
- Distance: 151,447,617.43 km (+27,665.71 km)
- Light travel time: 8 min 25.17 s (+0.09 s)
MOON
- Distance: 378,473.40 km (+5,529.99 km)
- Light travel time: 1.26 s (+0.02 s)
- Geocentric speed: 1.04 km/s (-0.02 km/s)
MARS
- Distance: 329,625,331.64 km (-309,348.34 km)
- The 'Red Planet' distress signal finally lands in 18 min 19.51 s (-1.03 s)
- Heliocentric speed: 26.10 km/s (-0.01 km/s)
2026-05-22 13:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-15)
WHERE IS OSIRIS-APEX?
- Barycentric speed: 23.32 km/s (-0.21 km/s)
- Rendezvous with Apophis in: 1064 days
🪨 Relative to Apophis
- Distance (km): 304,682,644.56 km (+112,774.39 km)
- Distance (AU): 2.04 (+0.00)
- Light travel time: 16 min 56.34 s (+0.38 s)
🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 51,825,220.91 km (-3,924,925.83 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.35 (-0.03)
- Light travel time: 2 min 52.88 s (-13.09 s)
