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The 35 - 77 metre wide asteroid 2010 XN will make a close pass (23.2 lunar distances, 0.0596 AU), travelling at 8.53 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 27th December, 2010 @ 10:42 UT ±1 minute.

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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 XN                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0041 AU
Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5                 MPC
M 183.26734              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.81561242     Peri.  101.10359     -0.99981677     -0.00343678
a   1.1345235      Node    78.70149     -0.00440687     -0.91599931
e   0.3553612      Incl.    1.10033     +0.01862786     -0.40116513
P   1.21           H   24.6           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2010 - X24

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