2010 TD 54
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Asteroid 2010 TD 54 |
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| Orbit of 2010 TD 54 while flying past Earth on October 12, 2010 (Source: NASA / JPL) | |
| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Near-Earth asteroid, Apollo-type |
| Major semi-axis | 1.9723 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.6434 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 0.7033 AU - 3.2412 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.2999 ° |
| Sidereal period | 2.77 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 0.02293 h |
| Absolute brightness | 28.9 mag |
| Source: Unless otherwise stated, the data comes from JPL Small-Body Database Browser . The affiliation to an asteroid family is automatically determined from the AstDyS-2 database . Please also note the note on asteroid items. | |
2010 TD 54 is an asteroid that passed Earth on October 12, 2010 at 10:51 a.m. UTC at a distance of approximately 45,000 kilometers.
The NASA reported that 2010 TD 54 has a diameter of about 5 to 10 meters. This means that a collision with the earth would not have had any major consequences, it would simply have burned up when it entered the earth's atmosphere . According to NASA, the point of shortest distance during the passage of the earth over Southeast Asia was near Singapore . The object was discovered by a telescope from the Catalina Sky Survey Project on October 9, 2010 in Tucson , Arizona .
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- ↑ Small Asteroid to Pass Within Earth-Moon System Tuesday , NASA. Retrieved October 11, 2010.