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The 46 - 100 metre wide asteroid 2009 XP7 will make a close pass (27.9 lunar distances, 0.0718 AU), travelling at 8.86 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th December, 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 XP7                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0706 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M  21.50872              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.45295336     Peri.  147.52881     +0.60282967     -0.76968961
a   1.6791921      Node   264.52815     +0.67951564     +0.63333134
e   0.3909375      Incl.   12.18911     +0.41815653     +0.08043203
P   2.18           H   23.3           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2009 - Y01

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