Ten Thousandth Near-Earth Object Unearthed in Space
More than 10,000 asteroids and comets that can pass near Earth have now been discovered. The 10,000th near-Earth object, asteroid 2013 MZ5, was first detected on the night of June 18, 2013, by the Pan-STARRS-1 telescope, located on the 10,000-foot (convert) summit of the Haleakala crater on Maui. Managed by the University of Hawaii, the PanSTARRS survey receives NASA funding. Read more
Orbital elements:
2013 MZ5 Earth MOID = 0.4571 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 258.30816 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.51169264 Peri. 274.45221 +0.86548523 -0.12862799
a 1.5480914 Node 93.50033 +0.31228386 +0.89422701
e 0.1749874 Incl. 29.01532 -0.39168113 +0.42873405
P 1.93 H 20.2 G 0.15 U 7