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The 80 - 180 metre wide asteroid 2009 HG60 made a close pass (9.6 Lunar Distances, 0.0246 AU), travelling at 18.21 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 24th April 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 HE60
Earth Impact Risk Summary
Torino Scale (maximum) 0
Palermo Scale (maximum) -8.76
Palermo Scale (cumulative) -8.76
Impact Probability (cumulative) 5.5e-09
Number of Potential Impacts 1
Vimpact 13.31 km/s
Vinfinity 7.28 km/s
H 25.6
Diameter 0.025 km
Mass 2.2e+07 kg
Energy 4.6e-01 MT
all above are mean values
weighted by impact probability
Analysis based on
16 observations spanning 3.0287 days
(2009-Apr-24.23861 to 2009-Apr-27.26731)
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Orbital elements:
2009 HG60                                                Earth MOID = 0.0005 AU
Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5                 MPC
M  36.01613              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.35645359     Peri.  282.84091     -0.71368022     -0.69732213
a   1.9700053      Node   213.01852     +0.68059631     -0.66790806
e   0.6443910      Incl.    6.99393     +0.16567804     -0.26007822
P   2.77           H   22.6           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2009 - H63

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