* Astronomy

Update
The 52 - 120 metre wide asteroid 2011 GR59 will make a close pass (13.7 lunar distances, 0.0352 AU), travelling at 5.49 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 26th April, 2011 @ 20:05 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).

Ephemeris

Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase     V
2011 04 19    10 44.93   +49 25.0    0.0416   1.018   107.8    69.9    19.3
2011 04 20    10 34.71   +52 41.1    0.0400   1.015   103.7    74.1    19.3
2011 04 21    10 21.87   +56 08.2    0.0385   1.012    99.4    78.5    19.4
2011 04 22    10 05.32   +59 43.6    0.0372   1.009    94.8    83.1    19.5
2011 04 23    09 43.42   +63 22.1    0.0362   1.006    90.0    88.0    19.6
2011 04 24    09 13.67   +66 54.9    0.0353   1.003    85.0    93.0    19.8
2011 04 25    08 32.64   +70 07.0    0.0347   1.000    79.9    98.1    19.9
2011 04 26    07 37.02   +72 35.2    0.0343   0.998    74.7   103.4    20.2
2011 04 27    06 27.61   +73 50.5    0.0342   0.995    69.6   108.6    20.4
2011 04 28    05 14.16   +73 32.6    0.0344   0.992    64.6   113.6    20.8
2011 04 29    04 09.98   +71 48.3    0.0349   0.990    59.7   118.5    21.1
2011 04 30    03 20.89   +69 04.8    0.0356   0.987    55.2   123.1    21.5