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Asteroid 2005 YR3 made a close pass to the Earth-Moon system at 4:50 UT.

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The 55 - 120 metre wide asteroid 2005 YR3 will make a close pass (27.0 Lunar Distances, 0.0694 AU), travelling at 7.6km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 16th February 2009.

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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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