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Ten Thousandth Near-Earth Object Unearthed in Space

More than 10,000 asteroids and comets that can pass near Earth have now been discovered. The 10,000th near-Earth object, asteroid 2013 MZ5, was first detected on the night of June 18, 2013, by the Pan-STARRS-1 telescope, located on the 10,000-foot (convert) summit of the Haleakala crater on Maui. Managed by the University of Hawaii, the PanSTARRS survey receives NASA funding.
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Orbital elements:
2013 MZ5                                                 Earth MOID = 0.4571 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5                 MPC
M 258.30816              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.51169264     Peri.  274.45221     +0.86548523     -0.12862799
a   1.5480914      Node    93.50033     +0.31228386     +0.89422701
e   0.1749874      Incl.   29.01532     -0.39168113     +0.42873405
P   1.93           H   20.2           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2013 - M28

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