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The 22 - 48 metre wide asteroid 2009 XZ6 made a close pass (5.8 lunar distances, 0.0148 AU), travelling at 5.19 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 13th 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 XZ6                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0147 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M  35.36418              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.72612213     Peri.  325.99528     +0.62367097     -0.77340536
a   1.2259223      Node    85.15374     +0.74013531     +0.53755948
e   0.2054403      Incl.    6.53969     +0.25146421     +0.33596718
P   1.36           H   25.4           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2009 - X57

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