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The 52 - 120 metre wide asteroid 2009 PT2 will make a close pass (23.7 Lunar Distances, 0.0608 AU), travelling at 8.49 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 18th September, 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 PT2                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0460 AU
Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5                 MPC
M 302.77618              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.45825422     Peri.   95.18240     +0.81296258     -0.57951581
a   1.6662177      Node   300.24607     +0.50469119     +0.75006436
e   0.4489069      Incl.    3.78574     +0.29048003     +0.31869245
P   2.15           H   23.5           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2009 - Q03

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