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2016 EU85

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2016 EU85 is an asteroid that is currently rated at level 0 after being rated at level 1 on the Torino Scale by the NEODyS system. It was upgraded to level 1 on 25 March 2016 but downgraded on 30 March 2016. On the Sentry system it did not cross the threshold between the two levels, due to a lower computed impact probability. The asteroid is estimated to have a diameter of 440 metres (1,440 ft; 480 yd). It now has an observation arc of 78 days.

When rated at Torino Scale level 1, there was a 0.0012% chance or a 1 in 83,000 chance of the asteroid colliding with the Earth, corresponding to a 99.9988% chance the asteroid will miss the Earth. Asteroid 2016 EU85 had observed 14 times at the observatories 568 Mauna Kea, 705 Apache Point, F51 Pan-STARRS 1 Haleakala and H01 Magdalena Ridge Observatory, Socorro.

2016 EU85 was subsequently removed from the list of possible impactors thanks to prediscovery observations found in the Pan-STARRS archive.

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2016 EU85 Wikipedia