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Near-Earth Asteroid Fly-By Captured By Observatory

Asteroid 2002 AM31 flew by Earth on July 22nd. The Slooh Space Camera in the Canary Islands observatory was on hand to capture the space rock zoom by. It was about 3.2 million miles away on its closest approach.



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City-Block Sized Asteroid To Fly-By Earth



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The 620 - 1400 metre wide asteroid 2002 AM31 will make a close pass (13.7 lunar distances, 0.0351 AU), travelling at 9.55 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 22nd July, 2012 @ 23:39 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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Asteroid 153958 (2002 AM31) will make a near Earth flyby on the 22nd July, 2012.

Google earth file: Asteroid (153958) 2002 AM31.kmz (18kb, kmz)

Ephemeris

Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase     V
2012 07 01    18 15 28.0 +07 05 43   0.1284  1.1288   149.2    27.5    15.2
2012 07 02    18 16 03.0 +07 55 46   0.1227  1.1228   148.2    28.5    15.2
2012 07 03    18 16 42.7 +08 49 32   0.1171  1.1169   147.2    29.5    15.1
2012 07 04    18 17 27.6 +09 47 33   0.1116  1.1111   146.2    30.6    15.0
2012 07 05    18 18 18.8 +10 50 26   0.1061  1.1053   145.0    31.8    14.9
2012 07 06    18 19 17.2 +11 58 56   0.1007  1.0996   143.8    33.1    14.8
2012 07 07    18 20 24.0 +13 13 55   0.09537 1.0939   142.5    34.4    14.7
2012 07 08    18 21 41.0 +14 36 28   0.09011 1.0883   141.1    35.9    14.6
2012 07 09    18 23 10.0 +16 07 51   0.08493 1.0827   139.6    37.5    14.5
2012 07 10    18 24 53.6 +17 49 38   0.07985 1.0772   137.9    39.3    14.4
2012 07 11    18 26 55.1 +19 43 43   0.07486 1.0718   136.1    41.2    14.3
2012 07 12    18 29 19.1 +21 52 25   0.06998 1.0664   134.0    43.3    14.2
2012 07 13    18 32 11.4 +24 18 32   0.06523 1.0611   131.8    45.6    14.1
2012 07 14    18 35 40.4 +27 05 31   0.06063 1.0559   129.2    48.2    14.0
2012 07 15    18 39 58.2 +30 17 25   0.05621 1.0508   126.3    51.2    14.0
2012 07 16    18 45 22.4 +33 58 56   0.05202 1.0457   123.0    54.6    13.9
2012 07 17    18 52 20.8 +38 15 10   0.04811 1.0407   119.2    58.5    13.8
2012 07 18    19 01 38.3 +43 10 58   0.04453 1.0358   114.8    62.9    13.8
2012 07 19    19 14 32.8 +48 49 24   0.04139 1.0310   109.8    68.1    13.7
2012 07 20    19 33 30.0 +55 08 40   0.03877 1.0263   104.0    73.9    13.8
2012 07 21    20 03 24.0 +61 56 05   0.03679 1.0216    97.6    80.4    13.9
2012 07 22    20 54 45.2 +68 35 51   0.03556 1.0171    90.7    87.3    14.1
2012 07 23    22 26 39.8 +73 43 01   0.03514 1.0126    83.6    94.4    14.3
2012 07 24    00 39 15.6 +74 54 18   0.03558 1.0083    76.7   101.3    14.7
2012 07 25    02 30 00.7 +71 38 05   0.03684 1.0040    70.5   107.6    15.1
2012 07 26    03 34 09.8 +66 17 47   0.03885 0.9999    65.1   112.9    15.5
2012 07 27    04 10 35.5 +60 39 15   0.04149 0.9958    60.6   117.3    15.9


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