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Update:
The 45 - 100 metre wide asteroid 2011 XD will make a close pass (42.6 lunar distances, 0.1095 AU), travelling at 7.61 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 7th January, 2012 @ 13:47 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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The 46 - 100 metre wide asteroid 2011 XD will make a close pass (43.8 lunar distances, 0.1125 AU), travelling at 7.74 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 7th January, 2012 @ 16:48 UT ±2 days 04:40.

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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 XD                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0471 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5                 MPC
M 237.48513              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.66870946     Peri.   82.65367     -0.95817708     -0.23186438
a   1.2951232      Node    83.83211     +0.14644248     -0.90084062
e   0.3495299      Incl.    9.71302     +0.24586844     -0.36704915
P   1.47           H   24.0           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2011 - X14



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