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The 32 - 70 metre wide asteroid 2010 PQ2 made a close pass (15.0 lunar distances, 0.0385 AU), travelling at 6.11 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 1st August, 2010 @ 09:56 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 PQ2                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0370 AU
Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5                 MPC
M 355.03334              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.34614112     Peri.    2.60136     +0.70470625     +0.70906080
a   2.0089413      Node   312.20600     -0.65155907     +0.63284606
e   0.4767557      Incl.    1.92928     -0.28082002     +0.31102837
P   2.85           H   24.7           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2010 - P20

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