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The 2 - 5 metre wide asteroid 2011 CA7 will make a close pass (58.1 lunar distances, 0.1492 AU), travelling at 5.43 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 23rd July, 2012 @ 16:46 UT ±14:47. 

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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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The 2-3 metre wide asteroid 2011 CA7 will pass by the Earth at 17.00 UTC on the 9th February, 2011. At closest distance, the asteroid will pass at a distance of 110,000 km, one third of the distance from Earth to the Moon.
Tomorrow evening the magnitude 17 asteroid will travel through the constellation Orion.

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Orbital elements:
2011 CA7                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0003 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5                  MPC
M 292.23302              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.94781318     Peri.  280.36075     -0.50683497     +0.86198933
a   1.0264100      Node   319.18138     -0.78503348     -0.46614334
e   0.2856152      Incl.    0.84402     -0.35614709     -0.19921042
P   1.04           H   30.3           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2011 - C35

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