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The 79 - 180 metre wide asteroid 2011 GQ59 will make a close pass (40.8 lunar distances, 0.1050 AU), travelling at 6.79 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 13th April, 2011 @ 13:30 UT ±04:11.

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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 GQ59                                                Earth MOID = 0.0857 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5                  MPC
M 345.82330              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.25971687     Peri.   66.62375     -0.98684836     +0.16040488
a   2.4329655      Node   122.60117     -0.15562858     -0.90931014
e   0.5555066      Incl.    1.36135     -0.04370414     -0.38396008
P   3.79           H   22.6           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2011 - G62



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