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RE: Asteroid 2009 VX

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Removed from Earth Impact Risk List.

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Orbital elements:
2009 VX                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0068 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M   4.52311              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.24377498     Peri.   52.14131     -0.15921707     -0.98346197
a   2.5379124      Node    47.25353     +0.86484806     -0.18111473
e   0.6629636      Incl.    6.75098     +0.47611739     +0.00011088
P   4.04           H   26.1           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2009 - V44

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2009 VX
Earth Impact Risk Summary

Torino Scale (maximum)	0
Palermo Scale (maximum)	-10.2
Palermo Scale (cumulative)	-10.21
Impact Probability (cumulative)	1.1e-10
Number of Potential Impacts	1

V_impact	18.59 km/s
V_infinity	14.88 km/s
H	26.2
Diameter	0.020 km
Mass	1.0e+07 kg
Energy	4.2e-01 MT
all above are mean values weighted by impact probability

Analysis based on
17 observations spanning .20513 days
(2009-Nov-09.22026 to 2009-Nov-09.42539)

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Orbital elements:
2009 VX                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0067 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M   4.37920              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.23495232     Peri.   52.25223     -0.16108959     -0.98313593
a   2.6010551      Node    47.25303     +0.86437514     -0.18287523
e   0.6718687      Incl.    6.76985     +0.47634626     -0.00063014
P   4.19           H   26.1           G   0.15           U   6

MPEC 2009 - V34

The 16 - 35 metre wide asteroid 2009 VX will make a close pass (2.6 Lunar Distances, 0.0066 AU), travelling at 14.13 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 12th November, 2009.
The asteroid was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) on the 9th 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).

-- Edited by Blobrana on Monday 9th of November 2009 08:31:31 PM