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RE: Asteroid 2009 MU

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2009 MU
Earth Impact Risk Summary

Torino Scale (maximum)	0
Palermo Scale (maximum)	-6.78
Palermo Scale (cumulative)	-6.72
Impact Probability (cumulative)	1.8e-07
Number of Potential Impacts	2

V_impact	17.34 km/s
V_infinity	13.28 km/s
H	24.5
Diameter	0.042 km
Mass	1.0e+08 kg
Energy	3.6e+00 MT
all above are mean values weighted by impact probability

Analysis based on
87 observations spanning 4.7182 days
(2009-Jun-19.30659 to 2009-Jun-24.024819)

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2009 MU
Earth Impact Risk Summary

Torino Scale (maximum)	0
Palermo Scale (maximum)	-6.44
Palermo Scale (cumulative)	-6.44
Impact Probability (cumulative)	4.0e-07
Number of Potential Impacts	2

V_impact	17.39 km/s
V_infinity	13.35 km/s
H	24.6
Diameter	0.040 km
Mass	8.6e+07 kg
Energy	3.1e+00 MT
all above are mean values weighted by impact probability

Analysis based on
82 observations spanning 3.9055 days
(2009-Jun-19.30659 to 2009-Jun-23.21214)

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2009 MU
Earth Impact Risk Summary

Torino Scale (maximum)	0
Palermo Scale (maximum)	-6.28
Palermo Scale (cumulative)	-6.21
Impact Probability (cumulative)	5.5e-07
Number of Potential Impacts	2

V_impact	17.34 km/s
V_infinity	13.28 km/s
H	24.5
Diameter	0.043 km
Mass	1.1e+08 kg
Energy	3.9e+00 MT
all above are mean values weighted by impact probability

Analysis based on
62 observations spanning 2.9141 days
(2009-Jun-19.30659 to 2009-Jun-22.22069)

Source

The 34 - 75 metre wide asteroid 2009 MU will make a close pass (2.3 Lunar Distances, 0.0059 AU), travelling at 13.01 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 24th 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 MU                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0042 AU
Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5                 MPC
M 348.32897              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.28699625     Peri.  224.50383     +0.74782892     +0.65173090
a   2.2762427      Node    94.38850     -0.56824891     +0.72688481
e   0.6060696      Incl.    7.28807     -0.34328571     +0.21653017
P   3.43           H   24.5           G   0.15           U   6

MPEC 2009 - M19