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The 18 - 41 metre wide asteroid 2011 EC12 will make a close pass (71.0 lunar distances, 0.1825 AU), travelling at 10.93 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 9th March, 2013 @ 15:36 UT ±03:52. 

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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 18 - 41 metre wide asteroid 2011 EC12 will make a close pass (36.9 lunar distances, 0.0948 AU), travelling at 12.91 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 9th March, 2012 @ 23:48 UT ±01:05.

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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 EC12                                                Earth MOID = 0.0030 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5                  MPC
M 269.01273              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.97760675     Peri.  296.31193     +0.22843962     +0.97243896
a   1.0054487      Node   346.64219     -0.80561354     +0.16190108
e   0.4517378      Incl.   11.65362     -0.54662800     +0.16778116
P   1.01           H   26.0           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2011 - E31

Object
Name 		Close
Approach
Date 		Miss
Distance
(AU) 		Miss
Distance
(LD) 		Estimated
Diameter* 		H
(mag) 		Relative
Velocity
(km/s)
(2011 EC12) 2011-Mar-08 0.0087 3.4 17 m - 38 m 26.0 15.28


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