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Asteroid 2011 AL1
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The 400 - 900 metre wide asteroid 2011 AL1 made a close pass (63.4 lunar distances, 0.1629 AU), travelling at 24.56 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 31st December, 2010 @ 22:45 UT ±01:59.

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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:
2011 AL1                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0634 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5                  MPC
M  21.81193              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.32281819     Peri.  318.69437     +0.45258299     -0.65170495
a   2.1045733      Node    95.17479     +0.89009955     +0.37132183
e   0.5436229      Incl.   37.67171     -0.05377201     +0.66136280
P   3.05           H   19.1           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2011 - A11

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