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The 280 - 620 metre wide asteroid 2008 XM made a close pass (30.8 lunar distances, 0.0792 AU), travelling at 33.96 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 18th January, 2010.

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Asteroid 2008 XM has just passed the Earth.

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The 290 - 640 metre wide asteroid 2008 XM will make a close pass (30.8 lunar distances, 0.0791 AU), travelling at 34.03 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 18th 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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