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The 27 - 61 metre wide asteroid 2009 WD52 made a close pass (23.3 lunar distances, 0.0600 AU), travelling at 16.61 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 22nd 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 WD52                                                Earth MOID = 0.0603 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M  47.54256              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.65299710     Peri.  326.90410     +0.81335273     -0.37685310
a   1.3158161      Node    61.60060     +0.57974415     +0.58856496
e   0.2267804      Incl.   30.25512     -0.04851859     +0.71524333
P   1.51           H   24.9           G   0.15           U   6

MPEC 2009 - W81

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