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The 200 - 450 metre wide asteroid 2009 YT6 will make a close pass (50.8 lunar distances, 0.1304 AU), travelling at 8.04 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 20th May, 2010.

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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 YT6                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0978 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M 322.59624              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.46150765     Peri.   99.63365     -0.92407958     -0.14821653
a   1.6583777      Node    72.49620     -0.03847731     -0.88098452
e   0.4892313      Incl.   21.67830     +0.38025837     -0.44933077
P   2.14           H   20.7           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2009 - Y36

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