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RE: Asteroid 2010 AG40

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Asteroid 2010 AG40 has just passed the Earth.

Blobrana · L

Orbital elements:
2010 AG40                                                Earth MOID = 0.0340 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M 331.52859              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.42372322     Peri.  181.66587     -0.90695904     +0.42098532
a   1.7555554      Node    23.24668     -0.38604869     -0.81745256
e   0.6061498      Incl.    2.03620     -0.16849840     -0.39311917
P   2.33           H   22.1           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2010 - A69

The 100 - 230 metre wide asteroid 2010 AG40 will make a close pass (21.3 lunar distances, 0.0546 AU), travelling at 18.31 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 24th 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).