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The 25 - 56 metre wide asteroid 2011 AF3 will make a close pass (4.8 lunar distances, 0.0122 AU), travelling at 31.75 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 6th January, 2011 @ 21:49 UT ±09:22.

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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 AF3                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0102 AU
Epoch 2010 Dec. 30.0 TT = JDT 2455560.5                 MPC
M 357.51516              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.05324601     Peri.  109.35221     -0.85996587     +0.49767233
a   6.9975288      Node   100.63682     -0.50069910     -0.77986072
e   0.9444501      Incl.    6.60532     -0.09878826     -0.37965710
P  18.5            H   25.1           G   0.15
From 13 observations 2011 Jan. 4.

MPEC 2011 - A18

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