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The 530 - 1200 metre wide asteroid 2008 OC6 will make a close pass (75.8 lunar distances, 0.1949 AU), travelling at 14.34 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th April 2014 @ 18:14 UT ±00:01.

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



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Orbital elements:
2008 OC6                                            PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0304 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5                 MPC
M  23.42321              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   1.11178075     Peri.  295.81446     -0.40062327     -0.91611431
a   0.9228334      Node   177.63606     +0.91568744     -0.40090742
e   0.1991406      Incl.   21.84557     +0.03189837     +0.00279561
P   0.89           H   18.4           G   0.15           U   3

MPEC 2013 - L36

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