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RE: Asteroid 2010 OC

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2010 OC
Earth Impact Risk Summary

Torino Scale (maximum)	0
Palermo Scale (maximum)	-5.52
Palermo Scale (cumulative)	-5.52
Impact Probability (cumulative)	3.8e-09
Number of Potential Impacts	1

V_impact	17.12 km/s
V_infinity	13.00 km/s
H	18.8
Diameter	0.600 km
Mass	2.9e+11 kg
Energy	1.0e+04 MT
all above are mean values weighted by impact probability

Analysis based on
34 observations spanning 1.4755 days
(2010-Jul-19.31361 to 2010-Jul-20.789114)

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Orbital elements:
2010 OC                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0679 AU
Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5                 MPC
M 351.40643              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.20662271     Peri.   28.39094     +0.98671660     +0.10190118
a   2.8336792      Node   325.04332     -0.15549737     +0.81786553
e   0.6314346      Incl.   12.75684     +0.04702043     +0.56631450
P   4.77           H   18.8           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2010 - O15

The 470 - 1000 metre wide asteroid 2010 OC will make a close pass (72.5 lunar distances, 0.1862 AU), travelling at 14.71 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 10th August, 2010 @ 03:15 UT.

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The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).