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Asteroid 2004 RK9

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The 140 - 320 metre wide asteroid 2004 RK9 will make a close pass (50.3 Lunar Distances, 0.1292 AU), travelling at 6.30 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 13th June, 2009.

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Orbital elements:
2004 RK9                                                 Earth MOID = 0.1103 AU
Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5                 MPC
M 356.50364              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.39546213     Peri.  283.97424     +0.15731555     +0.98750403
a   1.8382283      Node   355.04822     -0.85904148     +0.13216301
e   0.4260957      Incl.    6.22534     -0.48713403     +0.08584133
P   2.49           H   21.4           G   0.15           U   2

MPEC 2009 - K56

The 150 - 340 metre wide asteroid 2004 RK9 will make a close pass (50.2 Lunar Distances, 0.1289 AU), travelling at 6.28 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 14th June, 2009.

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