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RE: Asteroid 2013 FD8

Blobrana · L

The 19 - 43 metre wide asteroid 2013 FD8 will make a close pass (33.1 lunar distances, 0.0851 AU), travelling at 11.55 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 26th March 2014 @ 01:09 UT ±00:54.

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

Ephemeris

Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase     Mag
2014 03 25    18 15 56.7 -39 46 03   0.08449 1.0020    90.8    84.3    23.3
2014 03 26    18 37 20.5 -41 46 53   0.08421 0.9978    87.8    87.3    23.4
2014 03 27    19 00 02.8 -43 32 01   0.08442 0.9937    84.8    90.3    23.5
2014 03 28    19 23 44.1 -44 58 31   0.08513 0.9895    81.8    93.3    23.6
2014 03 29    19 47 58.1 -46 04 28   0.08633 0.9853    78.9    96.2    23.8
2014 03 30    20 12 14.9 -46 49 13   0.08799 0.9811    76.1    98.9    24.0
2014 03 31    20 36 03.6 -47 13 23   0.09009 0.9769    73.4   101.6    24.1
2014 04 01    20 58 57.1 -47 18 42   0.09260 0.9727    70.8   104.0    24.3
2014 04 02    21 20 34.3 -47 07 35   0.09549 0.9685    68.4   106.3    24.5
2014 04 03    21 40 41.4 -46 42 54   0.09873 0.9642    66.2   108.4    24.7
2014 04 04    21 59 11.8 -46 07 27   0.1023  0.9599    64.2   110.3    24.8
2014 04 05    22 16 04.7 -45 23 52   0.1061  0.9557    62.3   112.0    25.0
2014 04 06    22 31 23.4 -44 34 27   0.1103  0.9514    60.6   113.6    25.2
2014 04 07    22 45 14.1 -43 41 05   0.1146  0.9471    59.1   115.0    25.4
2014 04 08    22 57 44.1 -42 45 15   0.1192  0.9428    57.7   116.2    25.5
2014 04 09    23 09 01.2 -41 48 08   0.1239  0.9385    56.4   117.3    25.7
2014 04 10    23 19 13.2 -40 50 33   0.1289  0.9342    55.2   118.3    25.8

Blobrana · L

The 17 - 39 metre wide asteroid 2013 FD8 will make a close pass (8.4 lunar distances, 0.0215 AU), travelling at 9.46 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 27th March, 2013 @ 13:00 UT ±01:21.

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

Blobrana · L

Orbital elements:
2013 FD8                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0211 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5                 MPC
M 300.44750              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.99963994     Peri.  293.74800     +0.42815308     +0.90369023
a   0.9906197      Node     1.63214     -0.74508713     +0.35636461
e   0.2422124      Incl.   10.88329     -0.51140015     +0.23737784
P   0.99           H   25.7           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2013 - F36

Key to Orbital elements