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Asteroid 2012 CA
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The 48 - 110 metre wide asteroid 2012 CA made a close pass (35.4 lunar distances, 0.0909 AU), travelling at 18.87 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 31st January, 2012 @ 04:00 UT ±00:18. 

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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 CA                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0913 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M  57.76965              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.70849522     Peri.  320.98230     -0.13345895     -0.88843725
a   1.2461723      Node   131.53030     +0.99068735     -0.13165414
e   0.1625177      Incl.   35.91946     +0.02696810     +0.43971176
P   1.39           H   23.7           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2012 - C11



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