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The 330 - 750 metre wide asteroid 2008 AS28 will make a close pass (51.9 lunar distances, 0.1334 AU), travelling at 20.26 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 16th June, 2011 @ 21:28 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:
2008 AS28                                                Earth MOID = 0.0680 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5                 MPC
M   7.80482              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.26099979     Peri.  248.23226     +0.84849891     +0.40593754
a   2.4249862      Node    86.42641     -0.26386178     +0.88064052
e   0.7313325      Incl.   19.88707     -0.45872275     +0.24430920
P   3.78           H   19.5           G   0.15           U   3

MPEC 2011 - K31

Preliminary designation2008 AS28
GroupApollo
Absolute magnitude19.45
Approximate diameter (m)330 - 750 
Approximate mass (kg)7.34·1010


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