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Asteroid 2010 KB8 has passed the Earth.

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The 45 - 100 metre wide asteroid 2010 KB8 will make a close pass (7.7 lunar distances, 0.0197 AU), travelling at 28.38 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 23rd May, 2010 @ 12:47 UT.

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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 KB8                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0070 AU
Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5                 MPC
M  10.25244              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.62277066     Peri.  301.36444     +0.96571044     -0.25769848
a   1.3580548      Node    73.58511     +0.24796927     +0.87954785
e   0.8227497      Incl.    1.88429     +0.07690631     +0.39998385
P   1.58           H   23.9           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2010 - K33

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