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The 270 - 610 metre wide asteroid 2009 TK8 will make a close pass (48.6 Lunar Distances, 0.1249 AU), travelling at 12.66 km/s, to the Earth-Moon  system on the 17th October, 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 TK8                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0747 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M 189.54285              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   1.09433452     Peri.  222.78688     -0.32959217     +0.92743401
a   0.9326155      Node    29.32402     -0.73900425     -0.13692492
e   0.3403344      Incl.   21.15355     -0.58757273     -0.34801971
P   0.90           H   19.9           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2009 - T63

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