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The 190 - 420 metre wide asteroid 2011 GP65 made a close pass (52.8 lunar distances, 0.1357 AU), travelling at 17.24 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 7th May, 2011 @ 00:15 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 GP65                                                Earth MOID = 0.1042 AU
Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5                  MPC
M 325.27747              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.26504893     Peri.  273.75546     +0.32093916     +0.94558184
a   2.4002253      Node    15.29676     -0.76816126     +0.29299115
e   0.6460316      Incl.   11.72256     -0.55400932     +0.14153155
P   3.72           H   20.7           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2011 - H02



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