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Asteroid 2010 DU1 has just passed the Earth.

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The 13 m - 29 metre wide asteroid 2010 DU1 will make a close pass (4.3 lunar distances, 0.0110 AU), travelling at 14.20 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 24th February, 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 DU1                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0078 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M 317.16668              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.44701544     Peri.   74.26753     -0.74092307     +0.67070009
a   1.6940297      Node   147.83008     -0.63835187     -0.68733200
e   0.5417564      Incl.    3.72167     -0.20866213     -0.27881197
P   2.20           H   26.5           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2010 - D50

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