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The 5 - 10 metre wide asteroid 2011 FA23 made a close pass (2.1 lunar distances, 0.0054 AU), travelling at 14.07 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 1st April, 2011 @ 03:12 UT ±00:01.

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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 FA23                                                Earth MOID = 0.0001 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5                  MPC
M 329.36453              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.33648138     Peri.   55.59113     -0.39335828     +0.91935585
a   2.0472083      Node   191.25237     -0.85540550     -0.36890471
e   0.5901801      Incl.    2.15992     -0.33697283     -0.13672652
P   2.93           H   28.9           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2011 - F57



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