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RE: Asteroid (153958) 2002 AM31

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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.

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