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The 13 - 29 metre wide asteroid 2011 KX15 will make a close pass (14.9 lunar distances, 0.0384 AU), travelling at 4.68 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 1st June, 2011 @ 20:06 UT ±01:02.

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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 KX15                                                Earth MOID = 0.0378 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5                 MPC
M  50.90566              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.54872329     Peri.  167.32138     -0.43568533     +0.89532134
a   1.4776348      Node    76.78800     -0.83390830     -0.36277472
e   0.2897755      Incl.    5.45912     -0.33878495     -0.25844572
P   1.80           H   26.5           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2011 - K48



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