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Asteroid 2009 WA52 has passed the Earth.

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The 14 - 32 metre wide asteroid 2009 WA52 will make a close pass (8.2  lunar distances, 0.0211 AU), travelling at 8.62 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 5th December, 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 WA52                                                Earth MOID = 0.0025 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M   1.25060              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.40970360     Peri.  214.35805     -0.30352418     -0.95235189
a   1.7953792      Node   253.32728     +0.88107460     -0.26854990
e   0.4744019      Incl.    1.79355     +0.36274043     -0.14459192
P   2.41           H   26.3           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2009 - W79

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