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The 17 - 38 metre wide asteroid 2009 TO8 will make a close pass (7.4 Lunar Distances, 0.0189 AU), travelling at 9.76 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st October, 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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2009 TO8
Earth Impact Risk Summary
Torino Scale (maximum) 0
Palermo Scale (maximum) -9.95
Palermo Scale (cumulative) -9.95
Impact Probability (cumulative) 1.9e-10
Number of Potential Impacts 1
Vimpact 16.38 km/s
Vinfinity 12.00 km/s
H 25.9
Diameter 0.023 km
Mass 1.6e+07 kg
Energy 5.0e-01 MT
all above are mean values
weighted by impact probability
Analysis based on
22 observations spanning .21419 days
(2009-Oct-15.28441 to 2009-Oct-15.4986)



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Orbital elements:
2009 TO8                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0039 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M  16.41490              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.35158943     Peri.   35.06184     +0.43205676     -0.90101926
a   1.9881333      Node    29.39552     +0.80841027     +0.36795801
e   0.5264936      Incl.    4.51244     +0.39974966     +0.22971985
P   2.80           H   26.0           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2009 - T67

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