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The 30 - 68 metre wide asteroid 2011 WS95 will make a close pass (7.2 lunar distances, 0.0185 AU), travelling at 8.71 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 28th December, 2011 @ 22:59 UT ±01:54.

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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 WS95                                                Earth MOID = 0.0147 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5                 MPC
M 315.66070              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.30668254     Peri.  250.05259     -0.56154747     -0.82725843
a   2.1777600      Node   234.12266     +0.76703342     -0.51247774
e   0.5645575      Incl.    1.24093     +0.31036135     -0.23023913
P   3.21           H   24.7           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2011 - X04



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