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The 390 - 880 metre wide asteroid 2004 XK50 will make a close pass (52.4 lunar distances, 0.1346 AU), travelling at 26.38 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 29th December, 2011 @ 10:09 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:
2004 XK50                                           PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0426 AU
Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5                 MPC
M  36.94751              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.56392731     Peri.  103.88807     -0.74294231     +0.26030636
a   1.4509551      Node    94.26510     -0.51045218     -0.81628226
e   0.6889413      Incl.   38.19784     +0.43298418     -0.51567807
P   1.75           H   19.1           G   0.15           U   2

MPEC 2010 - O27

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