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The 200 - 440 metre wide asteroid 2005 WC1 will make a close pass (71.9 lunar distances, 0.1848 AU), travelling at 21.98 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 5th December, 2010 @ 21:51 UT.

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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:
2005 WC1                                            PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0148 AU
Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5                 MPC
M 253.52003              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.59462598     Peri.  256.60145     -0.89115491     -0.29974501
a   1.4005764      Node   265.11908     +0.41546393     -0.84076652
e   0.4865966      Incl.   19.98787     -0.18229822     -0.45084874
P   1.66           H   20.7           G   0.15           U   2
MPEC 2009 -A56

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