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Asteroid 2009 XL8 has just passed the Earth.

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The 86 - 190 metre wide asteroid 2009 XL8 will make a close pass (15.2 lunar distances, 0.0390 AU), travelling at 16.58 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 29th 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 XL8                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0358 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M 323.61269              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.71126963     Peri.  282.87906     -0.94560156     +0.22241701
a   1.2429296      Node   270.34680     -0.11769006     -0.91423247
e   0.4794523      Incl.   13.73459     -0.30329316     -0.33868815
P   1.39           H   22.5           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2009 - Y09

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