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The 690 - 1500 metre wide asteroid 2009 MC9 will make a close pass (70.3 Lunar Distances, 0.1807 AU), travelling at 6.70 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 7th August, 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 MC9                                                 Earth MOID = 0.1581 AU
Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5                 MPC
M 345.62036              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.29149322     Peri.  346.38197     +0.65531349     +0.74939923
a   2.2527711      Node   324.42308     -0.67689231     +0.52697818
e   0.4811484      Incl.    9.36621     -0.33523280     +0.40086754
P   3.38           H   18.0           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2009 - N03

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