A Close Call!

Todd E. Van Hoosear (vanhoose@lalaland.cl.msu.edu)
Fri, 6 Jan 1995 16:23:31 -0500 (EST)


From: Jonathan's Space Report, Cambridge, MA
Date: 1994 Dec 20
Subject: Close Call

Minor planet 1994 XM1, a five-meter rock discovered by the Spacewatch
telescope on Dec 9, passed within about 100000 km of Earth at 1900 UT on
Dec 9. Orbit of 1994 XM1 is about 0.9 x 3.1 AU inclined at 5.6 deg to
the ecliptic.

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