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Blobrana · L

RE: Asteroid 2009 VR25

Blobrana · L

Removed from Earth Impact Risk List.

Blobrana · L

The 56 - 120 metre wide asteroid 2009 VR25 will make a close pass (30.9 Lunar Distances, 0.0793 AU), travelling at 9.02 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 28th 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).

Blobrana · L

Orbital elements:
2009 VR25                                                Earth MOID = 0.0184 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M 358.86965              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.52707094     Peri.   78.01712     -0.46286817     -0.88538586
a   1.5178307      Node    39.64678     +0.78483948     -0.43186457
e   0.4563498      Incl.    3.85998     +0.41204374     -0.17200254
P   1.87           H   23.4           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2009 - V52

2009 VR25
Earth Impact Risk Summary

Torino Scale (maximum)	0
Palermo Scale (maximum)	-6.48
Palermo Scale (cumulative)	-5.43
Impact Probability (cumulative)	2.1e-07
Number of Potential Impacts	123

V_impact	16.43 km/s
V_infinity	12.08 km/s
H	23.0
Diameter	0.086 km
Mass	8.7e+08 kg
Energy	2.8e+01 MT
all above are mean values weighted by impact probability

Analysis based on
15 observations spanning .93024 days
(2009-Nov-11.18571 to 2009-Nov-12.115952)