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roughly 53 meters (170 feet) in diameter. It was discovered on 13 December 2018 when the asteroid was about 0.125 AU (18,700,000 km; 11,600,000 mi) from Earth and had a
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rating at –3.6. In mid-2019 it was recovered which extended the observation arc to 177 days and was removed from the
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listed the nominal 22 June 2092 Earth distance as 0.009 AU (1,300,000 km; 840,000 mi).
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showed an estimated 1 in 6200 chance of the asteroid impacting Earth on 22 June 2092. The nominal
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using Solex 12 with 1000 clones of the asteroid showed that by 2092 the uncertainty region for
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22 June 2092 Earth distance was 0.17 AU (25,000,000 km; 16,000,000 mi) with a
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on 12 June 2019. It is now known that on 22 June 2092 the asteroid will pass about
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Near-Earth objects removed from the Sentry Risk Table
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Index


Discovered by
Pan-STARRS
Discovery site
Haleakala Obs.
MPC designation
Minor planet category
Apollo
NEO
Orbital characteristics
Epoch
JD
Uncertainty parameter
Observation arc
Aphelion
AU
Perihelion
Semi-major axis
Eccentricity
Orbital period (sidereal)
yr
Mean anomaly
°
Mean motion
Inclination
Longitude of ascending node
Argument of perihelion
MOID
LD
MOID

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