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The 5 - 12 metre wide asteroid 2010 VL65 made a close pass (2.6 lunar distances, 0.0066 AU), travelling at 4.37 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 10th November, 2010 @ 00:23 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 VL65                                                Earth MOID = 0.0073 AU
Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5                 MPC
M 208.25387              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.89188551     Peri.  251.81227     -0.42864556     -0.90171891
a   1.0688825      Node   223.70770     +0.85664861     -0.38585195
e   0.1420958      Incl.    4.67082     +0.28708211     -0.19499045
P   1.11           H   28.4           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2010 - V86