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The 21 - 47 metre wide asteroid 2012 EP3 will make a close pass (14.6 lunar distances, 0.0375 AU), travelling at 12.84 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 7th March, 2012 @ 15:19 UT ±00:03.

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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 EP3                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0374 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M 289.31378              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   1.09369494     Peri.  141.51773     +0.34957981     +0.93502131
a   0.9329791      Node   148.81383     -0.88549304     +0.35044722
e   0.4026523      Incl.    6.58769     -0.30609807     +0.05405454
P   0.90           H   25.5           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2012 - E32



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