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RE: Asteroid 2002 XQ40

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Orbital elements:
2002 XQ40                                                Earth MOID = 0.0066 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M 168.72183              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.88492758     Peri.   72.83191     +0.95771193     +0.28519315
a   1.0744781      Node   270.58487     -0.27634926     +0.87484306
e   0.3511963      Incl.    2.18445     -0.08011833     +0.39155393
P   1.11           H   22.5           G   0.15           U   4

MPEC 2012 - B61

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Asteroid 2002 XQ40 has passed the Earth.

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The 100 - 230 metre wide asteroid 2002 XQ40 will make a close pass (45.2 lunar distances, 0.1161 AU), travelling at 14.33 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 18th 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).