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Asteroid 2010 CJ18 has passed the Earth.

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The 12 - 27 metre wide asteroid 2010 CJ18 will make a close pass (3.3-lunar distances, 0.0084-AU), travelling at 8.28-km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 19th February, 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 CJ18                                                Earth MOID = 0.0063 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M 288.50522              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.74699363     Peri.   62.23907     -0.85243050     +0.51805504
a   1.2029792      Node   148.81216     -0.51473381     -0.80785319
e   0.2604742      Incl.    7.83329     -0.09171343     -0.28105550
P   1.32           H   26.7           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2010 - C57

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