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RE: Asteroid 2013 AF53

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Ephemeris

Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase     Mag
2014 01 09    13 01 12.2 +11 54 42   0.05862 0.9940    98.7    77.9    23.0
2014 01 10    13 23 10.9 +13 56 36   0.05819 0.9906    95.4    81.2    23.1
2014 01 11    13 45 37.8 +15 51 39   0.05832 0.9872    92.0    84.6    23.3
2014 01 12    14 08 09.1 +17 36 27   0.05903 0.9838    88.6    87.9    23.4
2014 01 13    14 30 20.6 +19 08 34   0.06027 0.9805    85.3    91.1    23.6
2014 01 14    14 51 50.2 +20 26 40   0.06203 0.9771    82.2    94.2    23.8
2014 01 15    15 12 20.0 +21 30 37   0.06425 0.9737    79.2    97.1    24.0
2014 01 16    15 31 37.4 +22 21 09   0.06689 0.9702    76.5    99.6    24.2
2014 01 17    15 49 34.9 +22 59 36   0.06990 0.9668    74.0   102.0    24.4
2014 01 18    16 06 09.9 +23 27 36   0.07323 0.9634    71.8   104.1    24.6
2014 01 19    16 21 23.6 +23 46 50   0.07685 0.9600    69.7   105.9    24.8
2014 01 20    16 35 19.4 +23 58 52   0.08072 0.9566    67.9   107.6    25.0
2014 01 21    16 48 02.5 +24 05 04   0.08479 0.9531    66.3   109.0    25.1
2014 01 22    16 59 38.9 +24 06 35   0.08905 0.9497    64.8   110.3    25.3
2014 01 23    17 10 14.9 +24 04 25   0.09346 0.9463    63.5   111.4    25.5
2014 01 24    17 19 56.4 +23 59 19   0.09801 0.9429    62.4   112.4    25.6
2014 01 25    17 28 49.2 +23 51 54   0.1027  0.9395    61.3   113.2    25.8
2014 01 26    17 36 58.5 +23 42 39   0.1074  0.9361    60.3   113.9    25.9
2014 01 27    17 44 29.2 +23 31 57   0.1123  0.9327    59.5   114.6    26.1
2014 01 28    17 51 25.6 +23 20 04   0.1172  0.9293    58.7   115.1    26.2
2014 01 29    17 57 51.4 +23 07 16   0.1223  0.9259    58.0   115.6    26.3
2014 01 30    18 03 50.1 +22 53 41   0.1273  0.9225    57.3   116.0    26.4
2014 01 31    18 09 24.5 +22 39 27   0.1325  0.9192    56.7   116.4    26.5

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Orbital elements:
2013 AF53                                                Earth MOID = 0.0201 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 177.81707              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.99396726     Peri.  105.45236     -0.81667917     +0.53586956
a   0.9943852      Node   107.39187     -0.57691418     -0.74889683
e   0.1934104      Incl.   12.97084     -0.01432357     -0.38986838
P   0.99           H   26.5           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2013 - A63

Key to Orbital Elements

The 13 - 29 metre wide asteroid 2013 AF53 made a close pass (7.5 lunar distances, 0.0192 AU), travelling at 8.97 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 10th January, 2013 @ 20:56 UT ±00:01.

The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).