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The 12 - 27 metre wide asteroid 2009 WX7 made a close pass (3.7 Lunar Distances, 0.0095 AU), travelling at 7.09 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 16th November, 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 WX7                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0081 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M  25.38946              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.40553241     Peri.  336.57631     +0.80061024     -0.59755288
a   1.8076694      Node    60.19243     +0.55748309     +0.71581967
e   0.4569368      Incl.    2.91999     +0.21962659     +0.36129318
P   2.43           H   26.7           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2009 - W52


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