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in 2020 were about 1400 times less than the background hazard level of Earth impacts, which is defined as the average risk posed by objects of the same size or larger over the years until the date of the potential impact.
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of 1.4 days during 13–15 January 2010. On 14 January 2010 the asteroid is estimated to have been 1.8 AU (270,000,000 km; 170,000,000 mi) from Earth with an uncertainty in the asteroids distance of
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on 14 June 2014 as a result of an update to the Sentry software. Another software update restored it to the Sentry Risk Table in 2017. It was again removed from the sentry list on 3 October 2018.
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of 9. Virtual clones of the asteroid that fit the uncertainty region in the known trajectory, showed a 1 in 770 million chance that the asteroid could
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of only 1.4 days and thus a poorly determined orbit. It was announced on 27 May 2010 based on images taken by the
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lists the nominal 20 October 2020 Earth distance as 3 AU (450,000,000 km; 280,000,000 mi).
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was the largest object listed on the Sentry Risk Table. It has a poorly constrained orbit with an
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WISE estimates the asteroid to be 1,900 meters (6,200 ft) in diameter. In 2018,
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NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office. 8: 21: 663:"2010AU118 Ephemerides for 20 October 2020" 637:"The Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale" 1420: 1399: 1385: 1377: 903: 889: 881: 1669:Minor planet object articles (unnumbered) 696:NeoDyS-2, Near Earth Objects—Dynamic Site 578: 576: 574: 572: 570: 568: 533: 531: 529: 527: 525: 523: 521: 519: 421:was observed 19 times over a very short 1689:Astronomical objects discovered in 2010 584:"Earth Impact Risk Summary: 2010 AU118" 485: 20: 1306:Planetary Defense Coordination Office 1301:Space Situational Awareness Programme 553:from the original on 13 December 2012 281:Longitude of ascending node 7: 831: 464:of −3.14, the odds of an impact by 406:Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer 14: 590:from the original on 3 April 2014 497:"MPEC 2010-K65 : 2010 AU118" 321:0.3 AU (45,000,000 km) 16:Potential Mars-crossing asteroid 541:(last observation: 2010-01-15; 1: 1276:Japan Spaceguard Association 1019:Earth-crossing minor planets 976:Potentially hazardous object 1366:Fiction about impact events 778:space situational awareness 460:on 2020 October 20. 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Index

Discovered by
WISE
C51
Minor planet category
Mars-crossing
Amor
NEO
Orbital characteristics
Epoch
Uncertainty parameter
Observation arc
Aphelion
AU
Perihelion
Semi-major axis
Eccentricity
Orbital period (sidereal)
yr
Mean anomaly
Inclination
°
°
Longitude of ascending node
Argument of perihelion
MOID
Dimensions
Mass
Absolute magnitude (H)
2010 AU118
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