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Astronomy Summer School Radar Observations Shine New Light on Near-Earth Asteroid

A team of scientists participating in a radio astronomy summer school had the unexpected opportunity to observe a recently discovered near-Earth asteroid as it zipped past our planet on July 7. The observations were made using the combined power of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia and a radar transmitter at NASA's Deep Space Network in Goldstone, California.
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The 51 - 110 metre wide asteroid 2015 HM10 will make a close pass (1.1 LD, 0.0030 AU) travelling at 8.46 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 7th July 2015 @ 18:39 UT ±00:01. 

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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:
2015 HM10                                                Earth MOID = 0.0018 AU
Epoch 2015 June 27.0 TT = JDT 2457200.5                 MPC
M 358.88019              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.25868755     Peri.  354.69178     +0.12906526     +0.99129616
a   2.4394151      Node   282.72195     -0.90882606     +0.10777247
e   0.5853917      Incl.    1.52519     -0.39670815     +0.07561091
P   3.81           H   24.3           G   0.15           U   6

MPEC 2015 - H90



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