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The 28 - 63 metre wide asteroid 2011 YE40 made a close pass (10.0 lunar distances, 0.0257 AU), travelling at 12.84 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 30th December, 2011 @ 14:24 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 YE40                                                Earth MOID = 0.0228 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M  52.19764              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.73389135     Peri.  183.33067     -0.18754821     -0.89987802
a   1.2172549      Node   277.75573     +0.91013656     -0.00843573
e   0.1740806      Incl.   23.41530     +0.36942808     -0.43606008
P   1.34           H   24.9           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2011 - Y70



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