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RE: Asteroid 2010 AL30

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Asteroid 2010 AL30 is scheduled to be a Goldstone radar target.

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Ephemeris:
2010 AL30                a,e,i = 1.00, 0.31, 4                   q = 0.6954
Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase     V
2010 01 04    08 02.83   +08 33.1    0.0536   1.033   158.9    20.0    21.7
2010 01 06    08 02.11   +08 32.3    0.0422   1.023   160.7    18.5    21.1
2010 01 08    08 00.60   +08 34.8    0.0310   1.013   162.5    16.9    20.4
2010 01 10    07 57.06   +08 44.7    0.0198   1.003   164.6    15.1    19.3
2010 01 12    07 43.96   +09 26.4    0.00863  0.992   167.4    12.4    17.4

2010 01 12.5  07 32.83   +10 01.0    0.00586  0.989   168.4    11.6    16.5
2010 01 13.0  07 01.77   +11 29.9    0.00312  0.987   166.8    13.1    15.2
2010 01 13.5  02 43.97   +14 16.7    0.00088  0.984   109.9    70.0    14.2
2010 01 14.0  21 09.83   -04 15.7    0.00275  0.981    27.4   152.5
2010 01 14.5  20 29.22   -06 50.6    0.00548  0.978    18.1   161.8
2010 01 15.0  20 17.11   -07 34.4    0.00826  0.976    15.6   164.3
2010 01 15.5  20 10.98   -07 56.1    0.0110   0.973    14.3   165.6

2010 01 16    20 07.30   -08 09.1    0.0138   0.970    13.5   166.3
2010 01 18    20 00.78   -08 32.8    0.0250   0.959    12.1   167.6
2010 01 20    19 58.27   -08 43.6    0.0362   0.949    11.7   167.9
2010 01 22    19 56.95   -08 51.3    0.0475   0.938    11.8   167.6
2010 01 24    19 56.17   -08 58.3    0.0589   0.927    12.4   166.8

Ephemeris

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The 10 metre asteroid 2010 AL30 was only discovered on the 11th January 2010 and makes its flyby of the earth-moon system at noon, 13th January 2010, about 12: 30 pm UTC at approximately 130,000 kilometers.

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Credit G. Dangl

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Ephemeris

 Date__(UT)__HR:MN     R.A._(ICRF/J2000.0)_DEC  APmag            

 2010-Jan-12 00:00     07 43 57.17 +09 26 23.8  17.32
 2010-Jan-12 05:00     07 40 19.13 +09 37 51.1  16.99
 2010-Jan-12 10:00     07 35 20.86 +09 53 18.6  16.61
 2010-Jan-12 15:00     07 28 08.64 +10 15 13.3  16.17
 2010-Jan-12 20:00     07 16 47.80 +10 48 28.2  15.63
 2010-Jan-13 01:00     06 56 25.68 +11 43 58.6  14.99
 2010-Jan-13 06:00     06 10 33.60 +13 27 33.7  14.26
 2010-Jan-13 11:00     03 41 08.57 +15 13 46.6  13.84
 2010-Jan-13 16:00     23 06 52.93 +03 40 52.2   n.a.
 2010-Jan-13 21:00     21 29 32.49 -02 56 53.1   n.a. 
 2010-Jan-14 02:00     20 55 36.08 -05 11 14.6   n.a. 
 2010-Jan-14 07:00     20 39 04.78 -06 14 05.9   n.a. 
 2010-Jan-14 12:00     20 29 23.38 -06 50 00.1   n.a.

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Asteroid 2010 AL30 will make a close approach at 12:48 UT, 13th January, 2010, at a distance of 0.00086 AU (129,060 km).
The asteroid may brighten to magnitude 14.

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The 11 - 25 metre wide asteroid 2010 AL30 will make a close pass (0.3 lunar distances, 0.0009 AU), travelling at 9.94 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 13th 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 AL30                                                Earth MOID = 0.0000 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M 281.40401              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.98349499     Peri.  104.60232     -0.78960713     +0.61038481
a   1.0014316      Node   113.05422     -0.58599752     -0.71971978
e   0.3055892      Incl.    3.91707     -0.18200958     -0.33080782
P   1.00           H   27.0           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2010 - A59