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The 36 - 81 metre wide asteroid 2010 AJ3 made a close pass (10.1 lunar distances, 0.0260 AU), travelling at 11.75 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 7th January, 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:
2010 AJ3                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0118 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M  34.90277              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.72417514     Peri.  291.33728     +0.71192061     -0.64662296
a   1.2281186      Node   110.07576     +0.70221052     +0.65084321
e   0.3084252      Incl.   16.95800     +0.00833303     +0.39784652
P   1.36           H   24.3           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2010 - A47

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