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NASA / JPL ID: 2499496

Asteroid 499496 2010 MR87 Close Approach

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33
Notable Pass
Orbitfall Index

Asteroid 499496 2010 MR87 is a near-Earth object catalogued by NASA under reference ID 2499496. Its estimated diameter is 338–755 m (average 546 m), inferred from brightness rather than measured directly. Its closest catalogued approach to Earth occurs on Tue, Oct 3, 1905, missing by 22,115,386 km — 57.51 lunar distances. NASA does not classify it as a potentially hazardous asteroid.

This score ranks how notable the asteroid approach is. It is not an impact prediction.

Closest approach

Approach date
1905-Oct-03 22:41
Miss distance (km)
22,115,386 km
Miss distance (LD)
57.51 LD
Miss distance (AU)
0.1478 AU
Relative velocity
19.7 km/s
Orbitfall Index
33/100

Size and brightness

Diameter range
338–755 m
Average diameter
546 m
Absolute magnitude
19.48

Related close approaches

DateOrbitingMiss (km)Miss (LD)Velocity (km/s)Index
03/10/05Earth22,115,38657.5119.733
01/10/21Earth28,704,28074.6418.832
07/10/94Earth29,615,94877.0121.333
04/10/10Earth22,386,12158.2119.833
01/10/26Earth28,345,94773.7118.832
06/10/15Earth22,817,59959.3319.933
03/10/31Earth27,951,03972.6818.932

Data source

All figures on this page come from NASA's Near Earth Object Web Service, maintained by the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at JPL. The Orbitfall Index is calculated by Orbitfall from those values — see the methodology and the NASA asteroid tracker overview. For current passes, see asteroids passing Earth today.

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