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Asteroid 2005 OU2 has just passed the Earth.

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The 400 - 900 metre wide asteroid 2005 OU2 will make a close pass (48.0 lunar distances, 0.1233 AU), travelling at 28.29 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 29th January, 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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Orbital elements:
2005 OU2                                                 Earth MOID = 0.1239 AU
Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5                 MPC
M 222.03599              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.71820962     Peri.  310.15854     +0.01647139     -0.80842368
a   1.2349098      Node   127.38918     +0.98137779     +0.12570437
e   0.3735615      Incl.   47.77634     -0.19138004     +0.57502136
P   1.37           H   19.0           G   0.15           U   2

MPEC 2009 - L21

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