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RE: Asteroid 2005 UO

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Removed as an Earth Impact Risk.

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2005 UO
Earth Impact Risk Summary

Torino Scale (maximum)	0
Palermo Scale (maximum)	-5.36
Palermo Scale (cumulative)	-5.36
Impact Probability (cumulative)	1.4e-07
Number of Potential Impacts	2

V_impact	22.05 km/s
V_infinity	19.02 km/s
H	22.1
Diameter	0.130 km
Mass	3.1e+09 kg
Energy	1.8e+02 MT
all above are mean values weighted by impact probability

Analysis based on
90 observations spanning 29.986 days
(2005-Oct-23.31641 to 2005-Nov-22.30279)

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Orbital elements:
2005 UO                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0028 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M 285.11484              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.62765406     Peri.  258.40375     +0.13137185     +0.99033966
a   1.3510015      Node    19.31443     -0.84922995     +0.13551826
e   0.5822352      Incl.    7.70960     -0.51141952     +0.02936256
P   1.57           H   22.1           G   0.15           U   3

MPEC 2010 - B15

The 100 - 230 metre wide asteroid 2005 UO will make a close pass (52.4 lunar distances, 0.1348 AU), travelling at 22.74 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 13th March, 2010.

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The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).