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RE: Asteroid 2009 UW18
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The 320 - 720 metre wide asteroid 2009 UW18 will make a close pass (52.7 lunar distances, 0.1355 AU), travelling at 14.22 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 28th April, 2012 @ 13:33 UT ±00:01.

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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 UW18                                                Earth MOID = 0.1071 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5                 MPC
M 161.73145              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.68145227     Peri.   59.76313     +0.26555721     +0.93987853
a   1.2789270      Node   227.29056     -0.95409810     +0.22421131
e   0.4388767      Incl.   16.99115     -0.13847812     +0.25759976
P   1.45           H   19.6           G   0.15           U   4

MPEC 2011 - N10



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2009 UW18
Earth Impact Risk Summary
Torino Scale (maximum) 0
Palermo Scale (maximum) -4.62
Palermo Scale (cumulative) -4.49
Impact Probability (cumulative) 4.0e-09
Number of Potential Impacts 19
Vimpact 19.83 km/s
Vinfinity 16.41 km/s
H 19.3
Diameter 0.459 km
Mass 1.3e+11 kg
Energy 6.2e+03 MT
all above are mean values
weighted by impact probability
Analysis based on
15 observations spanning 1.0774 days
(2009-Oct-23.34501 to 2009-Oct-24.42245)



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Orbital elements:
2009 UW18 Earth MOID = 0.1392 AU
Epoch 2009 Oct. 16.0 TT = JDT 2455120.5 MPC
M 66.11143 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.74020749 Peri. 54.99161 +0.18222970 +0.95991131
a 1.2103205 Node 227.02430 -0.97003776 +0.14011294
e 0.4181939 Incl. 16.92413 -0.16068314 +0.24277283
P 1.33 H 19.5 G 0.15
From 15 observations 2009 Oct. 23-24.

MPEC 2009 - U75


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