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The 130 - 300 metre wide asteroid 2011 MC will make a close pass (28.6 lunar distances, 0.0735 AU), travelling at 17.19 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 29th June, 2011 @ 21:32 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 MC                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0719 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5                 MPC
M   6.11658              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.24403455     Peri.  225.34014     +0.66995411     +0.61377907
a   2.5361124      Node    91.96748     -0.50592033     +0.78917162
e   0.6134188      Incl.   24.70224     -0.54332873     +0.02198640
P   4.04           H   21.5           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2011 - M21



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