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The 6 - 14 metre wide asteroid 2008 KT will make a close pass (63.9 lunar distances, 0.1642 AU), travelling at 7.83 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 1st December, 2012 @ 02:32 UT ±00:30. 

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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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The 6 - 14  metre wide asteroid 2008 KT will make a close pass (26.2 lunar distances, 0.0674 AU), travelling at 4.97 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 27th November, 2011 @ 19:39 UT ±00:43.

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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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The 6 - 14 metre wide asteroid 2008 KT will make a close pass (5.6 lunar distances, 0.0143 AU), travelling at 2.65 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 23rd November, 2010 @ 20:56 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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Asteroid 2008 KT has just passed the Earth.

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The 6 - 14 metre wide asteroid 2008 KT will make a close pass (43.0 Lunar Distances, 0.1105 AU), travelling at 2.77 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 4th 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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The 6.0 - 14 metre wide asteroid 2008 KT will make a close pass (33.9 Lunar Distances, 0.0870 AU), travelling at 2.69 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 28th August, 2009.

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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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The 6 - 14 metre wide asteroid 2008 KT, made a close flyby of the Earth on the 30th March, 2009, passing by around sixteen million km.

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2008 KT
Earth Impact Risk Summary
Torino Scale (maximum) 0
Palermo Scale (maximum) -7.05
Palermo Scale (cumulative) -6.23
Impact Probability (cumulative) 2.9e-05
Number of Potential Impacts 51
Vimpact 11.55 km/s
Vinfinity 3.03 km/s
H 28.3
Diameter 0.008 km
Mass 5.9e+05 kg
Energy 9.3e-03 MT
all above are mean values
weighted by impact probability
Analysis based on
16 observations spanning .28333 days
(2008-May-28.25417 to 2008-May-28.5375)

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-- Edited by Blobrana on Thursday 20th of August 2009 01:46:04 PM

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