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The 21 - 47 metre wide asteroid 2010 MA made a close pass (9.3_lunar distances, 0.0238_AU), travelling at 10.70_km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 14th June, 2010 @ 17:10 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 MA                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0237 AU
Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5                 MPC
M 162.44797              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   1.27219650     Peri.   32.10928     -0.47782011     -0.84382201
a   0.8435288      Node    87.49017     +0.74541279     -0.53657836
e   0.3493896      Incl.   14.15068     +0.46480934     -0.00693350
P   0.77           H   25.5           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2010 - M10

Asteroid 2010 MA was discovered by the Mt. Lemmon Survey on the 16th June, 2010.

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