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The 260 - 580 metre wide asteroid 2009 XO will make a close pass (30.9 lunar distances, 0.0795 AU), travelling at 14.78 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th January, 2010.

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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 XO                                             PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0475 AU
Epoch 2009 Nov. 25.0 TT = JDT 2455160.5                 MPC
M 333.08457              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.36203371     Peri.  101.05764     -0.81959096     -0.57292199
a   1.9497101      Node    43.98842     +0.52248885     -0.75136399
e   0.4696283      Incl.    0.45967     +0.23510859     -0.32743328
P   2.72           H   20.0           G   0.15
From 24 observations 2009 Dec. 9.

MPEC 2009 - X31

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