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Asteroid 2010 DE2 has just passed the Earth.

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The 13 - 29 metre wide asteroid 2010 DE2 will make a close pass (3.8 lunar distances, 0.0099 AU), travelling at 5.81 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 22nd 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 DE2                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0040 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M 330.57699              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.50475138     Peri.  187.00398     -0.96159757     -0.27262024
a   1.5622518      Node   337.09905     +0.25560765     -0.84737939
e   0.3647427      Incl.    4.68060     +0.09997427     -0.45566037
P   1.95           H   26.5           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2010 - D57


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