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RE: Asteroid 2012 EC
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The 56 - 130 metre wide asteroid 2012 EC will make a close pass (31.7 lunar distances, 0.0815 AU), travelling at 5.57 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 20th August, 2012 @ 23:26 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:
2012 EC                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0013 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M 265.31436              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.79616684     Peri.  332.90002     +0.17983076     +0.98361328
a   1.1529222      Node   307.45711     -0.89956005     +0.15913847
e   0.1357196      Incl.    0.92944     -0.39806108     +0.08473401
P   1.24           H   23.6           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2012 - E17

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