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The 18 - 39 metre wide asteroid 2009 CD2 made a close pass (17.3 Lunar Distances, 0.0445 AU) to the Earth-Moon system on the 10th February 2009.

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The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

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2009 CD2
Earth Impact Risk Summary
Torino Scale (maximum) 0
Palermo Scale (maximum) -9.30
Palermo Scale (cumulative) -8.84
Impact Probability (cumulative) 2.4e-08
Number of Potential Impacts 3
Vimpact 11.95 km/s
Vinfinity 4.30 km/s
H 27.1
Diameter 0.012 km
Mass 2.8e+06 kg
Energy 4.8e-02 MT
all above are mean values
weighted by impact probability
Analysis based on
14 observations spanning .15108 days
(2009-Feb-04.31926 to 2009-Feb-04.47034)


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Asteroid 2009 CD2 = 9C975EA (NEOCPO)
Orbital elements:
2009 CD2                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0143 AU
Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5                 MPC
M 321.03814              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.39972482     Peri.  218.82249     -0.99420968     -0.09984575
a   1.8251363      Node   315.39677     +0.10717322     -0.89446991
e   0.4717774      Incl.    3.24297     +0.00781114     -0.43583759
P   2.47           H   26.0           G   0.15           U   9
MPEC 2009 -C44

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