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Asteroid 2010 FU has just passed the Earth.

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The 39 - 87 metre wide asteroid 2010 FU made a close pass (15.0 lunar distances, 0.0386 AU), travelling at 8.47 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st 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).

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Orbital elements:
2010 FU                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0372 AU
Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5                  MPC
M 333.59563              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.41236038     Peri.  161.57683     -0.97348858     -0.22794996
a   1.7876593      Node     5.35519     +0.17592651     -0.79908873
e   0.4289682      Incl.   11.71009     +0.14618432     -0.55632366
P   2.39           H   24.2           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2010 - F37


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