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RE: Asteroid 2011 AG5

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2011 AG5
Earth Impact Risk Summary

Torino Scale (maximum)	0
Palermo Scale (maximum)	-3.35
Palermo Scale (cumulative)	-3.16
Impact Probability (cumulative)	2.3e-05
Number of Potential Impacts	7

V_impact	14.66 km/s
V_infinity	9.53 km/s
H	22.0
Diameter	0.130 km
Mass	3.2e+09 kg
Energy	8.1e+01 MT
all above are mean values weighted by impact probability

Analysis based on
60 observations spanning 13.967 days
(2011-Jan-08.2673 to 2011-Jan-22.23445)

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2011 AG5
Earth Impact Risk Summary

Torino Scale (maximum)	0
Palermo Scale (maximum)	-3.47
Palermo Scale (cumulative)	-3.27
Impact Probability (cumulative)	1.8e-05
Number of Potential Impacts	6

V_impact	14.66 km/s
V_infinity	9.53 km/s
H	22.1
Diameter	0.130 km
Mass	3.1e+09 kg
Energy	7.8e+01 MT
all above are mean values weighted by impact probability

Analysis based on
56 observations spanning 13.535 days
(2011-Jan-08.2673 to 2011-Jan-21.8026)

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2011 AG5
Earth Impact Risk Summary

Torino Scale (maximum)	0
Palermo Scale (maximum)	-3.30
Palermo Scale (cumulative)	-2.48
Impact Probability (cumulative)	4.2e-05
Number of Potential Impacts	115

V_impact	14.79 km/s
V_infinity	9.72 km/s
H	22.1
Diameter	0.130 km
Mass	3.1e+09 kg
Energy	8.1e+01 MT
all above are mean values weighted by impact probability

Analysis based on
25 observations spanning .88835 days
(2011-Jan-08.2673 to 2011-Jan-09.155648)

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Orbital elements:
2011 AG5                                            PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0003 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5                  MPC
M 337.76377              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.53492647     Peri.   53.11731     -0.99064248     +0.12754547
a   1.5029343      Node   134.15340     -0.13648246     -0.92538819
e   0.4229673      Incl.    3.88212     -0.00014768     -0.35691575
P   1.84           H   22.0           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2011 - A31

The 100 - 230 metre wide asteroid 2011 AG5 will make a close pass (36.6 lunar distances, 0.0941 AU), travelling at 7.73 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 24th February, 2011 @ 20:48 UT ±2 days 19:34.

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