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Asteroid close approaches in May 2017

43 asteroids passed within 0.05 AU of Earth in May 2017 - that is about 7.5 million km, or 19.5 lunar distances (LD). Click any name for full details.

2017 HA5 01 May, 17:04 9.79 LD 4.1 km/s 8-19 m 2017 JA 02 May, 07:24 0.26 LD 16 km/s 4-9 m 2017 JP2 03 May, 03:26 9.1 LD 14 km/s 51-113 m 2024 JF 03 May, 23:48 18.73 LD 13.1 km/s 5-12 m 2017 JQ1 04 May, 01:16 0.44 LD 11.2 km/s 4-8 m 2017 JB2 04 May, 03:18 0.14 LD 4.8 km/s 4-9 m 2017 KP27 04 May, 10:51 8.11 LD 4.7 km/s 18-41 m 2017 HK1 05 May, 15:40 16.85 LD 2.7 km/s 25-57 m 2021 JN1 06 May, 11:37 16.73 LD 16.2 km/s 30-66 m 2015 VD1 08 May, 00:00 18.16 LD 10.5 km/s 25-57 m 2017 HX4 08 May, 11:57 3.7 LD 11.9 km/s 15-34 m 2017 JV1 08 May, 21:09 2.34 LD 11.3 km/s 15-34 m 2017 JY1 09 May, 11:22 8.88 LD 8.1 km/s 23-52 m 2017 HZ49 09 May, 21:08 14.97 LD 5.4 km/s 21-47 m 2017 JG3 10 May, 05:58 7.64 LD 15.3 km/s 20-45 m 2017 JX1 11 May, 02:50 3.71 LD 8 km/s 17-38 m 2017 KZ2 11 May, 06:31 7.24 LD 17.1 km/s 27-59 m 2024 ED6 11 May, 07:55 11.32 LD 6.5 km/s 39-86 m 2017 HU49 11 May, 21:42 5.56 LD 1.8 km/s 13-30 m 2017 JA2 12 May, 12:31 2.57 LD 9.6 km/s 31-68 m 2017 KG3 13 May, 00:13 5.56 LD 13.9 km/s 31-68 m 2017 JR1 13 May, 15:53 15.75 LD 10 km/s 31-68 m 2017 JM2 15 May, 03:49 5.09 LD 14.7 km/s 37-82 m 2017 KL32 17 May, 21:06 15.95 LD 16.6 km/s 42-94 m 2017 KG5 20 May, 11:20 15.4 LD 27.4 km/s 31-68 m 2017 KT31 20 May, 13:37 9.25 LD 16.3 km/s 42-94 m 2017 KY4 20 May, 15:50 2.47 LD 9.3 km/s 30-67 m 2018 KS 21 May, 22:12 1.61 LD 7.8 km/s 7-16 m 2017 KN27 23 May, 05:27 5.22 LD 17.7 km/s 22-49 m 2017 KH3 24 May, 02:29 18.62 LD 20 km/s 46-103 m 2017 KJ32 24 May, 17:16 1.9 LD 2.6 km/s 4-10 m 2017 LF 25 May, 06:22 12.96 LD 7.2 km/s 29-65 m 2017 KW4 25 May, 15:34 3.88 LD 13 km/s 21-47 m 2017 KH5 25 May, 16:23 1.32 LD 14.9 km/s 8-18 m 2017 KK32 26 May, 10:02 8.83 LD 11.3 km/s 12-26 m 2026 KO1 27 May, 03:47 6.7 LD 3.1 km/s 8-17 m 2017 KC36 27 May, 04:01 3.17 LD 12.4 km/s 9-21 m 2023 XZ1 27 May, 05:18 16.15 LD 16 km/s 43-96 m 2018 WW1 28 May, 02:26 8.83 LD 10 km/s 27-59 m 2022 KZ 29 May, 01:56 12.73 LD 10.8 km/s 14-31 m 2017 CS 29 May, 15:44 7.93 LD 9.1 km/s 282-631 m 2017 KJ27 30 May, 15:50 6.03 LD 16.1 km/s 22-49 m 2017 KW31 31 May, 07:08 1.23 LD 10.8 km/s 13-30 m
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