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Asteroid 2008 TQ2
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The 180 - 390 metre wide asteroid 2008 TQ2 will make a close pass (59.7 lunar distances, 0.1535 AU), travelling at 6.82 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 14th December, 2013 @ 11:51 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 TQ2                                                 Earth MOID = 0.1032 AU
Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5                 MPC
M 227.73385              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.39339193     Peri.  235.01242     -0.18303325     -0.98191834
a   1.8446717      Node   225.61218     +0.92258668     -0.15457810
e   0.4202892      Incl.    3.87740     +0.33960660     -0.10927941
P   2.51           H   21.0           G   0.15           U   1

MPEC 2010 - Q33

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