* Astronomy

The 29 - 64 metre wide asteroid 2008 VY3 will make a close pass (41.7 Lunar Distances, 0.1071 AU), travelling at 14.57 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th November, 2009.

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The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).