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Asteroid 2009 WS25 has passed the Earth.

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The 26 - 57 metre wide asteroid 2009 WS25 will make a close pass (22.7 lunar distances, 0.1747 AU), travelling at 8.04 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 25th 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).

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Orbital elements:
2009 WS25                                                Earth MOID = 0.0552 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M   3.02622              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.75237042     Peri.  218.83949     -0.12664556     -0.96726707
a   1.1972410      Node   239.47145     +0.96184681     -0.06554987
e   0.1527822      Incl.   14.79061     +0.24251107     -0.24514820
P   1.31           H   25.1           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2009 - W68

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