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Asteroid 2026 QY1 closes to 0.011673 AU — a second flyby, not a strike

Origin Lane: neoNASA JPL CNEOS, Pasadena, California

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) Close Approach Data (CAD) lists asteroid 2026 QY1 passing Earth at 0.011673 astronomical units on 28 August 2026 at 12:38 AM EDT (04:38 UTC). Relative speed is 9.489 km/s. That is a predicted flyby distance from the official catalog. It is not an impact forecast. NASA Sentry, the long-term impact-monitoring list, does not include 2026 QY1 as of this check.

Named place (estimated): NASA JPL CNEOS catalog/observatory in Pasadena. 2026 QY1 is a flyby, not a strike — this pin is not an impact site.
Designation
2026 QY1
Approach
Aug 28, 2026, 12:38 AM EDT
Distance
0.011673 AU (NASA CAD)
Speed
9.489 km/s relative
H magnitude
25.706
Sentry
not listed

A close approach is not an impact forecast.

Doom Signals NEO lane rule; distances from NASA JPL CAD

CAD fields used (NASA/JPL SBDB Close Approach Data API v1.5): designation 2026 QY1; close-approach date 2026-Aug-28 04:38; dist 0.0116728411139694 astronomical units (quoted here as 0.011673 AU); v_rel 9.48890230210862 km/s (quoted as 9.489 km/s); absolute magnitude H 25.706; orbit_id 2. Time uncertainty t_sigma_f is 00:04 (four minutes).

Sentry

The NASA/JPL Sentry Data API returned “specified object not found” for 2026 QY1. Sentry’s full catalog counted 2,185 objects at this check. A Sentry listing is long-term impact-probability monitoring, not a prediction that an impact will occur. Absence from Sentry plus a CAD flyby is the opposite of an impact headline.

What this is not

This note does not assign an impact date, a city, or a damage estimate. Doom Signals does not claim a strike is coming.

Why it matters

Catalog flybys are routine. CAD publishes predicted miss distances in astronomical units. Sentry separately watches objects with computed impact probabilities over many decades. 2026 QY1 is in CAD for this date and is not on Sentry. Treating a close approach as a strike date is a category error. A cataloged miss that close still belongs on a risk board; CAD is a flyby table, not an impact clock.

Sources

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