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Post Info TOPIC: Asteroid 2010 VW98


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RE: Asteroid 2010 VW98
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The 81 - 180 metre wide asteroid 2010 VW98 will make a close pass (51.4 lunar distances, 0.1321 AU), travelling at 7.03 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 29th November, 2012 @ 20:50 UT ±02:08. 

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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 VW98                                                Earth MOID = 0.1219 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 316.99622              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.48841025     Peri.  220.17244     -0.03338686     -0.98544119
a   1.5969067      Node   232.39695     +0.96246816     +0.01324834
e   0.3311588      Incl.   12.14693     +0.26933318     -0.16949969
P   2.02           H   22.5           G   0.15           U   2

MPEC 2012 - W39



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