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RE: Asteroid 2009 VT

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Update:
The 96 - 210 metre wide asteroid 2009 VT will make a close pass (63.7 Lunar Distances, 0.1638 AU), travelling at 8.46 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 5th February, 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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The 97 - 220 metre wide asteroid 2009 VT will make a close pass (64.4 Lunar Distances, 0.1656 AU), travelling at 8.55 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 5th February, 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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2009 VT
Earth Impact Risk Summary

Torino Scale (maximum)	0
Palermo Scale (maximum)	-6.61
Palermo Scale (cumulative)	-5.80
Impact Probability (cumulative)	2.2e-08
Number of Potential Impacts	67

V_impact	15.65 km/s
V_infinity	10.96 km/s
H	22.2
Diameter	0.120 km
Mass	2.5e+09 kg
Energy	7.3e+01 MT
all above are mean values weighted by impact probability

Analysis based on
21 observations spanning 1.0853 days
(2009-Nov-08.30784 to 2009-Nov-09.3931)

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Orbital elements:
2009 VT                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0087 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M 334.22643              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.59308761     Peri.  298.91399     -0.89482480     -0.44516850
a   1.4029972      Node   214.68218     +0.42728274     -0.83242320
e   0.4210014      Incl.    3.36203     +0.12929821     -0.32999489
P   1.66           H   22.2           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2009 - V30