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The 15 - 33 metre wide asteroid 2011 OD18 made a close pass (0.5 lunar distances, 0.0012 AU), travelling at 9.27 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 28th July, 2011 @ 06:38 UT ±10:34.

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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 OD18                                                Earth MOID = 0.0008 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5                 MPC
M  16.36039              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.31331650     Peri.  332.25721     +0.11886538     +0.99085946
a   2.1469102      Node   304.50301     -0.89604557     +0.07937233
e   0.5471110      Incl.    4.43914     -0.42775385     +0.10907595
P   3.15           H   26.3           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2011 - O71



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