* Astronomy

The 4 - 8 metre wide asteroid 2010 XB made a close pass (0.1 lunar distances, 0.0003 AU), travelling at 20.38 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 30th November, 2010 @ 18:26 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 XB                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0003 AU
Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5                 MPC
M 326.85329              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.39455493     Peri.   78.89032     +0.94666157     +0.32222661
a   1.8410450      Node   262.31204     -0.29617629     +0.86844003
e   0.6679226      Incl.    0.07913     -0.12693096     +0.37680490
P   2.50           H   29.4           G   0.15           U   6

MPEC 2010 - X12