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The 36 - 80 metre wide asteroid 2011 YC made a close pass (30.8 lunar distances, 0.0792 AU), travelling at 8.62 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 14th December, 2011 @ 20:24 UT ±00:24.

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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 YC                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0733 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M  41.11950              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.45096441     Peri.  357.81412     +0.12019321     -0.96308798
a   1.6841258      Node    85.21758     +0.91445863     +0.01296804
e   0.3725690      Incl.   13.98718     +0.38641818     +0.26887426
P   2.19           H   24.4           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2011 - Y06



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