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RE: Asteroid 2009 LU2

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The 93 - 210 metre wide asteroid 2009 LU2 will make a close pass (72.0 Lunar Distances, 0.1850 AU), travelling at 10.71 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 30th June, 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 LU2
Earth Impact Risk Summary

Torino Scale (maximum)	0
Palermo Scale (maximum)	-3.66
Palermo Scale (cumulative)	-3.39
Impact Probability (cumulative)	5.5e-06
Number of Potential Impacts	24

V_impact	18.30 km/s
V_infinity	14.51 km/s
H	22.5
Diameter	0.110 km
Mass	1.8e+09 kg
Energy	7.1e+01 MT
all above are mean values weighted by impact probability

Analysis based on
16 observations spanning 12.058 days
(2009-Jun-14.20491 to 2009-Jun-26.262609)

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Orbital elements:
2009 LU2                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0151 AU
Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5                 MPC
M 329.24231              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.57397641     Peri.  248.00927     +0.83768812     +0.53991539
a   1.4339699      Node    79.22482     -0.46509719     +0.78420165
e   0.3813843      Incl.    4.80453     -0.28629219     +0.30580899
P   1.72           H   23.4           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2009 - M02