Answer: The next close approach to Earth within 0.05 au listed by NASA JPL is asteroid 2026 VC11 at 2026-Nov-12 01:49 TDB, at a nominal distance of 0.000792473862304814 au.
Status: Confirmed
Entry: science/next-asteroid-close-approach
Revision: 1
Digest: sha256:34ca302e19a3aebf (changes whenever the content changes)

Timeline:
  Created: 2026-11-12T11:23:47Z
  Last changed: 2026-11-12T11:23:47Z
  Last verified: 2026-11-12T11:33:57Z
  Next check: 2026-11-13T11:33:57Z
  Check interval: Daily
  Expected change: New releases are published at no fixed schedule.

Data:
  Field | Value | Source | As of
  Object | 2026 VC11 | [1] | 2026-11-12
  Close-approach time (TDB) | 2026-Nov-12 01:49 | [1] | 2026-11-12
  Nominal distance | 0.000792473862304814 | [1] | 2026-11-12
  Relative velocity | 9.70222906280662 | [1] | 2026-11-12

Sources:
  [1] NASA JPL Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). "SBDB Close-Approach Data API". https://ssd-api.jpl.nasa.gov/cad.api?date-min=now&dist-max=0.05&sort=date&limit=5
      Role: primary. Accessed: 2026-11-12T11:33:57Z
      Quote: "["2026 VC11","1","2461356.575355265","2026-Nov-12 01:49","0.000792473862304814","0.000790841791535351","0.000794105691884355","9.70222906280662","9.34926675886073","< 00:01","29.464"]" (Supports: Object, Close-approach time (TDB), Nominal distance, Relative velocity)
      Snapshot SHA-256: f8df97afc58f146b13fda1a06f935a39d14c4abcc74da55a265f5940b0afc8a5 (captured 2026-11-12T11:33:57Z)

Verification:
  Method: Read by code directly from the structured data published at [1]; no language model was involved. Every value appears verbatim in a quoted passage of [1].
  Cross-check: not-available at 2026-11-12T11:33:57Z. No independent second source is configured for this entry
  Last successful check: 2026-11-12T11:33:57Z
  Last attempt: 2026-11-12T11:33:57Z

Notes and limitations:
  Distances are in astronomical units (au); velocity in km/s. Only approaches within 0.05 au (about 19.5 lunar distances) are listed.

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    latestN. (2026). What is the next asteroid close approach to Earth? Revision 1, last verified 2026-11-12T11:33:57Z. https://latestn.com/science/next-asteroid-close-approach (accessed 2026-11-12T12:52:56Z).

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      title        = {What is the next asteroid close approach to Earth?},
      author       = {{latestN}},
      year         = {2026},
      howpublished = {\url{https://latestn.com/science/next-asteroid-close-approach}},
      note         = {Revision 1; digest sha256:34ca302e19a3aebf; last verified 2026-11-12T11:33:57Z; accessed 2026-11-12T12:52:56Z}
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