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RE: Asteroid 2010 FT

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The 21 - 46 metre wide asteroid 2010 FT will make a close pass (5.4 lunar distances, 0.0140 AU), travelling at 6.85 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 27th March, 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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Removed as an Earth Impact Risk.

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2010 FT
Earth Impact Risk Summary

Torino Scale (maximum)	0
Palermo Scale (maximum)	-6.78
Palermo Scale (cumulative)	-6.04
Impact Probability (cumulative)	1.6e-06
Number of Potential Impacts	204

V_impact	12.03 km/s
V_infinity	3.59 km/s
H	25.4
Diameter	0.028 km
Mass	2.9e+07 kg
Energy	5.4e-01 MT
all above are mean values weighted by impact probability

Analysis based on
10 observations spanning .07382 days
(2010-Mar-18.43262 to 2010-Mar-18.50644)

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Orbital elements:
2010 FT                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0118 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M 236.88088              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.86035650     Peri.  249.01724     -0.16010409     +0.98684256
a   1.0948394      Node    11.83718     -0.85991256     -0.12822187
e   0.2087484      Incl.    6.31088     -0.48468244     -0.09849320
P   1.15           H   25.4           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2010 - F36