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The 68 - 150 metre wide asteroid 2009 MD will make a close pass (55.7 Lunar Distances, 0.1431 AU), travelling at 8.73 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st 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).

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Orbital elements:
2009 MD                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0882 AU
Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5                 MPC
M 358.83374              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.27318214     Peri.  166.43314     +0.11647248     +0.97874045
a   2.3523459      Node   110.04849     -0.92718551     +0.16808298
e   0.5326118      Incl.   10.35307     -0.35603538     -0.11753826
P   3.61           H   23.0           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2009 - M12

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