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RE: Asteroid 2000 YA

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Updated:

Orbital elements

2000 YA
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M  11.92071              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.26731709     Peri.   59.11225     -0.80687103     -0.58888384
a   2.3866289      Node    84.77014     +0.52473976     -0.75076016
e   0.6453468      Incl.    2.68422     +0.27130668     -0.29929083
P   3.69           H   23.7           G   0.15           U   0
From 155 observations at 2 oppositions, 2000-2011

MPEC 2011 - Y20

Google earth file: Asteroid 2000 YA.kmz (16kb, kmz) (Version 2)

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Ephemeris

Date       UT      R.A. (J2000) Decl.    Delta     r     El.    Ph.   V 
2011 12 25 000000 04 20 53.3 +53 57 01   0.012   0.993  143.1  36.5  15.4
2011 12 25 010000 04 19 59.8 +54 58 07   0.011   0.993  142.3  37.3  15.4
2011 12 25 020000 04 19 00.9 +56 01 56   0.011   0.992  141.4  38.2  15.4
2011 12 25 030000 04 17 55.8 +57 08 36   0.011   0.992  140.4  39.1  15.3
2011 12 25 040000 04 16 43.5 +58 18 15   0.011   0.992  139.5  40.1  15.3
2011 12 25 050000 04 15 22.6 +59 31 00   0.011   0.991  138.5  41.1  15.3
2011 12 25 060000 04 13 51.6 +60 47 02   0.010   0.991  137.4  42.2  15.3
2011 12 25 070000 04 12 08.4 +62 06 26   0.010   0.991  136.2  43.4  15.3
2011 12 25 080000 04 10 10.5 +63 29 21   0.010   0.991  135.0  44.6  15.3
2011 12 25 090000 04 07 54.4 +64 55 55   0.010   0.990  133.8  45.8  15.2
2011 12 25 100000 04 05 15.7 +66 26 12   0.0094  0.990  132.5  47.1  15.2
2011 12 25 110000 04 02 08.1 +68 00 18   0.0092  0.990  131.1  48.5  15.2
2011 12 25 120000 03 58 23.3 +69 38 14   0.0090  0.989  129.6  50.0  15.2
2011 12 25 130000 03 53 48.9 +71 20 00   0.0088  0.989  128.1  51.5  15.2
2011 12 25 140000 03 48 06.8 +73 05 30   0.0087  0.989  126.5  53.1  15.2
2011 12 25 150000 03 40 49.3 +74 54 32   0.0085  0.988  124.8  54.8  15.2
2011 12 25 160000 03 31 11.0 +76 46 40   0.0083  0.988  123.0  56.5  15.2
2011 12 25 170000 03 17 54.6 +78 41 06   0.0082  0.988  121.2  58.4  15.2
2011 12 25 180000 02 58 38.2 +80 36 20   0.0080  0.988  119.3  60.3  15.3
2011 12 25 190000 02 28 42.0 +82 29 13   0.0079  0.987  117.4  62.2  15.3
2011 12 25 200000 01 38 31.4 +84 12 29   0.0078  0.987  115.3  64.3  15.3
2011 12 25 210000 00 11 37.1 +85 28 31   0.0077  0.987  113.2  66.4  15.3
2011 12 25 220000 22 07 15.5 +85 44 46   0.0076  0.986  111.1  68.5  15.4
2011 12 25 230000 20 18 12.8 +84 47 04   0.0075  0.986  108.9  70.7  15.4
2011 12 26 000000 19 11 51.2 +83 02 15   0.0075  0.986  106.6  73.0  15.5
2011 12 26 010000 18 33 24.6 +80 55 11   0.0074  0.985  104.3  75.3  15.5
2011 12 26 020000 18 09 35.6 +78 37 12   0.0074  0.985  102.0  77.6  15.6
2011 12 26 030000 17 53 42.5 +76 13 22   0.0074  0.985   99.7  79.9  15.7
2011 12 26 040000 17 42 27.4 +73 46 18   0.0074  0.985   97.3  82.3  15.8
2011 12 26 050000 17 34 06.4 +71 17 38   0.0074  0.984   95.0  84.6  15.9
2011 12 26 060000 17 27 40.8 +68 48 34   0.0074  0.984   92.6  86.9  16.0
2011 12 26 070000 17 22 35.3 +66 20 00   0.0074  0.984   90.3  89.3  16.1
2011 12 26 080000 17 18 27.4 +63 52 44   0.0075  0.983   88.0  91.5  16.2
2011 12 26 090000 17 15 02.5 +61 27 23   0.0075  0.983   85.8  93.8  16.3
2011 12 26 100000 17 12 10.2 +59 04 33   0.0076  0.983   83.6  96.0  16.4
2011 12 26 110000 17 09 43.5 +56 44 42   0.0077  0.982   81.4  98.1  16.5
2011 12 26 120000 17 07 37.0 +54 28 15   0.0078  0.982   79.3 100.2  16.7
2011 12 26 130000 17 05 46.8 +52 15 29   0.0079  0.982   77.3 102.3  16.8
2011 12 26 140000 17 04 10.1 +50 06 42   0.0081  0.982   75.3 104.2  16.9

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Asteroid makes close approach
23 December, 2000

Astronomers have tracked a large asteroid moving close to Earth.
The 45-metre-wide space rock, travelling at more than 30 kilometres per second, came within 480,000 kilometres of the planet.
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The 50 - 110 metre wide asteroid 2000 YA will make a close pass (2.9 lunar distances, 0.0074 AU), travelling at 13.62 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 26th December, 2011 @ 05:43 UT ±00:44.

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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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Asteroid 2000 YA will pass near the Earth (0.007 AU) on the 26th December, 2011.

Google earth file: Asteroid 2000 YA.kmz (18kb, kmz)

Ephemeris

Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase     V
2011 12 22    04 35 21.8 +27 53 12   0.03364 1.0156   160.8    18.6    17.2
2011 12 23    04 33 47.2 +31 41 19   0.02599 1.0080   158.7    20.8    16.7
2011 12 24    04 30 40.3 +38 34 51   0.01856 1.0004   154.5    25.0    16.1
2011 12 25    04 20 54.2 +53 55 55   0.01175 0.9930   143.1    36.5    15.4
2011 12 26    19 12 46.0 +83 04 26   0.0074670.9857   106.7    72.9    15.5
2011 12 27    16 54 45.9 +32 34 50   0.0098720.9785    59.6   119.9    18.4
2011 12 28    16 47 25.2 +11 25 05   0.01622 0.9715    42.1   137.2    21.1
2011 12 29    16 44 50.8 +02 40 46   0.02351 0.9646    36.3   142.8    22.6
2011 12 30    16 43 34.4 -01 52 51   0.03109 0.9578    34.2   144.8    23.5
2011 12 31    16 42 51.3 -04 39 19   0.03880 0.9512    33.4   145.3    24.1