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The 75 - 170 metre wide asteroid 2009 JR2 will make a close pass (59.6 Lunar Distances, 0.1532 AU), travelling at 10.46 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st May, 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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Orbital elements:
2009 JR2                                                 Earth MOID = 0.1316 AU
Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5                 MPC
M 325.31629              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.71221293     Peri.  255.86385     +0.58046325     +0.76768940
a   1.2418319      Node    52.93810     -0.55177765     +0.61603242
e   0.1694228      Incl.   19.89145     -0.59883540     +0.17651355
P   1.38           H   22.6           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2009 - J59

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