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The 300 - 670 metre wide asteroid 2008 GD will make a close pass (65.6 lunar distances, 0.1687 AU), travelling at 32.35 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 30st March, 2012 @ 15:55 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 GD                                                  Earth MOID = 0.1191 AU
Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5                 MPC
M 134.56338              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.75200301     Peri.  292.71552     +0.78225360     +0.59103437
a   1.1976309      Node    32.08492     -0.34179984     +0.67141110
e   0.7767817      Incl.   21.75449     -0.52081875     +0.44708558
P   1.31           H   19.7           G   0.15           U   5
MPEC 2009 -D14

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