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The 8 - 18 metre wide asteroid 2011 UB made a close pass (5.0 lunar distances, 0.0129 AU), travelling at 6.35 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th October, 2011 @ 01:30 UT ±00:02.

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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 UB                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0112 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5                 MPC
M 338.65833              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.36892569     Peri.    8.02805     +0.85406931     -0.51999551
a   1.9253519      Node    23.31819     +0.47538671     +0.77012760
e   0.4773703      Incl.    1.88916     +0.21112341     +0.36947009
P   2.67           H   27.5           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2011 - U04



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