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Asteroid 2009 WC106 has just passed the Earth.

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The 21 - 48 metre wide asteroid 2009 WC106 will make a close pass (15.6 lunar distances, 0.0400 AU), travelling at 4.51 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 4th 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 WC106                                               Earth MOID = 0.0121 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M 334.63743              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.87337758     Peri.  257.55485     -0.76777303     -0.63536771
a   1.0839303      Node   242.93639     +0.61799387     -0.70029381
e   0.1784969      Incl.    5.32600     +0.16913946     -0.32541735
P   1.13           H   25.5           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2009 - W120

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