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The 40 - 89 metre wide asteroid 2012 EN3 will make a close pass (19.6 lunar distances, 0.0504 AU), travelling at 9.06 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 12th March, 2012 @ 11:47 UT ±00:04.

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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 EN3                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0340 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M 355.54891              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.28756724     Peri.   31.55490     -0.96903003     +0.24570109
a   2.2732286      Node   162.61671     -0.24028503     -0.91506087
e   0.5564796      Incl.    4.74886     -0.05695529     -0.31983523
P   3.43           H   24.1           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2012 - E30



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