2010 AL30

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2010 AL30
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Goldstone radar collage of asteroid 2010 AL30
Discovery
Discovery dateJanuary 10, 2010
Designations
none
Apollo NEO [1]
Orbital characteristics [1]
Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5)
Uncertainty parameter 2
Aphelion 1.3688  AU (204.77  Gm)
Perihelion 0.72437 AU (108.364 Gm)
1.0466 AU (156.57 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.30787
1.07 yr (391.07 d)
Average orbital speed
28.5
156.409°
0° 55m 13.944s /day
Inclination 3.8300°
112.376°
97.711°
Earth  MOID 0.000981553 AU (146,838.2 km)
Jupiter  MOID 3.59473 AU (537.764 Gm)
Physical characteristics
Dimensions~30 meters (elongated) [2]
0.14660  h (0.006108  d)
?
27.2

    2010 AL30 is a near-Earth asteroid that was discovered on 10 January 2010 at Grove Creek Observatory, Australia. [1] [3]

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    Italian scientists Ernesto Guido and Giovanni Sostero told RIA Novosti that it had an orbital period of almost exactly one year and might be a spent rocket booster. [4] However, it was determined that it is a near-Earth asteroid. [5]

    On January 13, 2010 at 1246 UT it passed Earth at 0.0008624  AU (129,010  km ; 80,170  mi ), [1] about 1/3 of the distance from the Earth to the Moon (or 0.33 LD).

    Based an estimated diameter of 10–15 m (33–49 ft), if 2010 AL30 had entered the Earth's atmosphere, it would have created a meteor air burst equivalent to between 50 kT and 100 kT (kilotons of TNT). The Nagasaki "Fat Man" atom bomb had a yield between 13–18 kT. [6]

    It has an uncertainty parameter of 2 and has been observed by radar. [1] Radar observations show the asteroid is elongated and is about 30 meters in diameter. [2] It may be a contact binary.

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