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RE: Asteroid 2012 EH5

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The 38 - 84 metre wide asteroid 2012 EH5 will make a close pass (62.8 lunar distances, 0.1613 AU), travelling at 9.75 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 5th September, 2012 @ 21:44 UT ±02:07.

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 EH5                                                 Earth MOID = 0.1098 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M 170.65716              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   1.01441029     Peri.    4.11532     +0.99976818     -0.01435811
a   0.9809803      Node   356.58167     +0.00105503     +0.77695913
e   0.1266755      Incl.   15.61005     +0.02150515     +0.62938728
P   0.97           H   24.3           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2012 - E53

The 41 - 92 metre wide asteroid 2012 EH5 will make a close pass (43.0 lunar distances, 0.1105 AU), travelling at 8.39 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 15th March, 2012 @ 17:06 UT ±06:42.

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The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).