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The 100 - 230 metre wide asteroid 2011 BY24 will make a close pass (54.9 lunar distances, 0.1411 AU), travelling at 10.28 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 4th March, 2011 @ 15:06 UT ±02:00.

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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 BY24                                                Earth MOID = 0.0171 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5                  MPC
M 355.07992              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.36402966     Peri.  325.28070     -0.90492705     -0.42344428
a   1.9425768      Node   189.94227     +0.42440849     -0.89060903
e   0.5063104      Incl.   14.23284     +0.03137622     -0.16586289
P   2.71           H   22.2           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2011 - B64

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