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The 420 - 930 metre wide asteroid 2011 KP17 will make a close pass (48.9 lunar distances, 0.1257 AU), travelling at 10.77 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 23rd August, 2011 @ 00:02 UT ±05:23.

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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 KP17                                                Earth MOID = 0.0813 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5                 MPC
M 356.25807              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.35970385     Peri.  179.55507     +0.98101571     +0.19273836
a   1.9581201      Node   169.25996     -0.17827937     +0.93984875
e   0.5534195      Incl.    6.60962     -0.07631935     +0.28202172
P   2.74           H   19.1           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2011 - L03



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