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The 14 - 32 metre wide asteroid 2012 BY61 made a close pass (25.6 lunar distances, 0.0657 AU), travelling at 14.07 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 25th January, 2012 @ 22:09 UT ±00:23.

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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 BY61                                                Earth MOID = 0.0657 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M  22.82730              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.45154748     Peri.  357.07486     -0.53442772     -0.77503896
a   1.6826757      Node   124.97945     +0.78358326     -0.60387106
e   0.3763146      Incl.   24.30148     +0.31683480     +0.18615678
P   2.18           H   26.4           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2012 - B73



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