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The 6 - 14 metre wide asteroid 2010 WK1 made a close pass (1.1 lunar distances, 0.0199 AU), travelling at 10.09 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 27th November, 2010 @ 18:30 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 WK1                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0019 AU
Epoch 2010 Nov. 20.0 TT = JDT 2455520.5                 MPC
M 353.68783              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.23861636     Peri.  205.02391     +0.00300073     -0.99522390
a   2.5743598      Node   244.93189     +0.93464966     +0.03748419
e   0.6293477      Incl.    6.18385     +0.35555733     -0.09013509
P   4.13           H   28.2           G   0.15
From 14 observations 2010 Nov. 27.

MPEC 2010 - W42

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