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The 4 - 8 metre wide asteroid 2010 VR21 made a close pass (0.9 lunar distances, 0.0024 AU), travelling at 14.26 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 7th November, 2010 @ 23:11 UT.

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

Orbital elements:
2010 VR21                                                Earth MOID = 0.0015 AU
Epoch 2010 Oct. 31.0 TT = JDT 2455500.5                 MPC
M 347.69964              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.27493472     Peri.  239.82670     -0.16922600     -0.98552547
a   2.3423385      Node   219.92012     +0.90957820     -0.15222055
e   0.6459316      Incl.    0.90225     +0.37951292     -0.07462206
P   3.58           H   29.0           G   0.15
From 11 observations 2010 Nov. 6.

MPEC 2010 - V67