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RE: Asteroid 2010 BU2

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Removed as an Earth Impact Risk.

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2010 BU2
Earth Impact Risk Summary

Torino Scale (maximum)	0
Palermo Scale (maximum)	-5.74
Palermo Scale (cumulative)	-5.73
Impact Probability (cumulative)	1.4e-06
Number of Potential Impacts	10

V_impact	14.07 km/s
V_infinity	8.59 km/s
H	24.5
Diameter	0.042 km
Mass	9.9e+07 kg
Energy	2.3e+00 MT
all above are mean values weighted by impact probability

Analysis based on
9 observations spanning .78253 days
(2010-Jan-21.14812 to 2010-Jan-21.93065)

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The 32 - 72 metre wide asteroid 2010 BU2 will make a close pass (6.6 lunar distances, 0.0170 AU), travelling at 7.88 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 27th 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:
2010 BU2                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0142 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M 351.87124              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.26404035     Peri.   12.87082     -0.72708979     -0.68499190
a   2.4063337      Node   123.79596     +0.62487136     -0.68810542
e   0.5861152      Incl.    3.18104     +0.28438745     -0.23936796
P   3.73           H   24.8           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2010 - B29

-- Edited by Blobrana on Friday 22nd of January 2010 01:45:08 AM