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The 370 - 820 metre wide asteroid 2008 YT30 will make a close pass (27.8 lunar distances, 0.0715 AU), travelling at 10.70 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 26th June, 2012 @ 04:27 UT ±00:01. 

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The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

Google earth file: Asteroid 2008 YT30.kmz (19kb, kmz)



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Orbital elements:
2008 YT30 Earth MOID = 0.0728 AU
Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC
M 198.84804 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.68905680 Peri. 334.05877 -0.42564888 +0.86110825
a 1.2695000 Node 269.65216 -0.77429904 -0.50561776
e 0.2752048 Incl. 16.14457 -0.46827772 +0.05332218
P 1.43 H 19.3 G 0.15 U 3
MPEC 2009 -B60

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2008 YT30
Earth Impact Risk Summary
Torino Scale (maximum) 0
Palermo Scale (maximum) -4.55
Palermo Scale (cumulative) -3.49
Impact Probability (cumulative) 6.7e-07
Number of Potential Impacts 124
Vimpact 14.82 km/s
Vinfinity 9.77 km/s
H 19.4
Diameter 0.450 km
Mass 1.3e+11 kg
Energy 3.3e+03 MT
all above are mean values
weighted by impact probability
Analysis based on
25 observations spanning 1.3192 days
(2008-Dec-31.09054 to 2009-Jan-01.40975)

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Orbital elements:
2008 YT30 Earth MOID = 0.0927 AU
Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC
M 190.14695 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.71019208 Peri. 338.88057 -0.34868456 +0.89800378
a 1.2441865 Node 269.90252 -0.81685281 -0.43155453
e 0.2704439 Incl. 15.56575 -0.45953299 +0.08573156
P 1.39 H 19.1 G 0.15 U 9
MPEC 2008 -Y85


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