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Asteroid 2009 WQ106 has just passed the Earth.

The 20 - 45 metre wide asteroid 2009 WQ106 made a close pass (33.6 lunar distances, 0.0863 AU), travelling at 11.69 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 3rd 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 WQ106                                               Earth MOID = 0.0863 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M 352.65946              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.71407172     Peri.   44.68024     -0.35197489     -0.87150836
a   1.2396759      Node    68.74424     +0.72313261     -0.48480355
e   0.1687906      Incl.   21.49204     +0.59430035     +0.07374755
P   1.38           H   24.5           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2009 - W132

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