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Asteroid 2009 YP has passed the Earth.

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The 44 - 98 metre wide asteroid 2009 YP will make a close pass (63.2 lunar distances, 0.1625 AU), travelling at 10.14 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st 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 YP                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0509 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M 163.24041              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   1.33377871     Peri.  202.55434     +0.31274540     +0.93384849
a   0.8173603      Node    86.02271     -0.84276381     +0.35709299
e   0.4270859      Incl.   10.01828     -0.43810897     -0.02028772
P   0.74           H   24.0           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2009 - Y28

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