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RE: Asteroid 2010 KV7

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The 17 - 37 metre wide asteroid 2010 KV7 will make a close pass (7.7 lunar distances, 0.0198 AU), travelling at 4.88 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 29th May, 2010 @ 17:07 UT

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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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2010 KV7
Earth Impact Risk Summary

Torino Scale (maximum)	0
Palermo Scale (maximum)	-5.51
Palermo Scale (cumulative)	-5.10
Impact Probability (cumulative)	2.8e-05
Number of Potential Impacts	48

V_impact	12.37 km/s
V_infinity	5.36 km/s
H	26.0
Diameter	0.021 km
Mass	1.2e+07 kg
Energy	2.3e-01 MT
all above are mean values weighted by impact probability

Analysis based on
14 observations spanning 3.0485 days
(2010-May-17.2011 to 2010-May-20.24965)

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Orbital elements:
2010 KV7                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0013 AU
Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5                 MPC
M  10.71722              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.73444809     Peri.   36.31348     +0.37619795     +0.92652377
a   1.2166397      Node   255.78543     -0.85138205     +0.34339119
e   0.2191868      Incl.    0.31721     -0.36554578     +0.15374065
P   1.34           H   26.0           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2010 - K27