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The 69 - 160 metre wide asteroid 1996 GQ has made a close pass (30.6-lunar distances, 0.0787-AU), travelling at 8.51-km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th 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).

-- Edited by Blobrana on Monday 15th of March 2010 05:42:05 PM

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Orbital elements:
1996 GQ                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0204 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M 343.14792              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.35219947     Peri.   59.21493     -0.81471146     -0.57966199
a   1.9858369      Node    85.35401     +0.52659705     -0.75072755
e   0.4949483      Incl.    0.88542     +0.24277725     -0.31685979
P   2.80           H   23.0           G   0.15           U   2

MPEC 2010 - C54

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