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The 25 - 56 metre wide asteroid 2009 XK8 made a close pass (16.1 lunar distances, 0.0414 AU), travelling at 10.64 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th 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 XK8                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0272 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M  12.17554              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.25877065     Peri.  300.61765     +0.67261769     -0.73859170
a   2.4388928      Node   107.04079     +0.69416934     +0.60848860
e   0.6079542      Incl.    2.72605     +0.25634813     +0.29021359
P   3.81           H   25.1           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2009 - Y08

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