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The 20 - 44 metre wide asteroid 2012 AW10 made a close pass (3.4 lunar distances, 0.0087 AU), travelling at 10.97 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 9th January, 2012 @ 16:21 UT ±00:46.

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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:
2012 AW10                                                Earth MOID = 0.0081 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M  56.35621              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.53204623     Peri.  300.13030     +0.60362956     -0.78842836
a   1.5083535      Node   112.26544     +0.76840518     +0.53574484
e   0.4350628      Incl.    7.34882     +0.21256723     +0.30225517
P   1.85           H   25.7           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2012 - A58



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