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RE: Asteroid 2009 UX87

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The 23 - 51 metre wide asteroid 2009 UX87 will make a close pass (52.3 lunar distances, 0.1345 AU), travelling at 7.17 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 9th April, 2010.

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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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Asteroid 2009 UX87 has just passed the Earth.

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Orbital elements:
2009 UX87                                                Earth MOID = 0.0248 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M  10.74422              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.86066245     Peri.   57.20717     -0.03206565     -0.99118014
a   1.0945799      Node    35.32819     +0.82647526     -0.09864070
e   0.1122342      Incl.   12.84787     +0.56205910     +0.08849828
P   1.15           H   25.2           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2009 - U120

The 24 - 54 metre wide asteroid 2009 UX87 will make a close pass (9.7 Lunar Distances, 0.0249 AU), travelling at 7.08 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 30th 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).