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The 41 - 93 metre wide asteroid 2011 KY15 will make a close pass (61.7 lunar distances, 0.1586 AU), travelling at 17.61 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 15th May, 2012 @ 21:30 UT ±00:17. 

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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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The 45 - 100 metre wide asteroid 2011 KY15 made a close pass (8.0 lunar distances, 0.0205 AU), travelling at 13.03 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 24th May, 2011 @ 15:52 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 KY15                                                Earth MOID = 0.0161 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5                 MPC
M 340.31370              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   1.88494642     Peri.  185.77778     +0.36668820     -0.89398064
a   0.6490379      Node   242.94646     +0.86473688     +0.42962847
e   0.6020095      Incl.   16.81048     +0.34317617     -0.12734985
P   0.52           H   23.9           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2011 - K49



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