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The 69 - 160 metre wide asteroid 2012 EO3 will make a close pass (28.0 lunar distances, 0.0719 AU), travelling at 15.08 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 5th March, 2012 @ 14:26 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 EO3                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0599 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M 203.11768              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   1.42977101     Peri.  352.23621     +0.93001414     +0.34636057
a   0.7803541      Node   345.53003     -0.30520580     +0.54152659
e   0.3563089      Incl.   29.46619     -0.20475134     +0.76601782
P   0.69           H   22.9           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2012 - E31



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