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RE: Asteroid 2012 EG5

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2012 Passage of Asteroid 2012 EG5

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Google earth file: Asteroid 2012 EG5.kmz (16kb, kmz)

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Ephemeris

Date       UT      R.A. (J2000) Decl.    Delta     r     El.    Ph.   V 
2012 03 14 000000 08 53 33.5 +04 56 57   0.089   1.063  139.2  37.6  20.5
2012 03 15 000000 08 53 07.1 +04 54 37   0.084   1.059  138.2  38.8  20.4
2012 03 16 000000 08 52 43.2 +04 51 58   0.080   1.055  137.2  39.9  20.3
2012 03 17 000000 08 52 22.2 +04 48 57   0.075   1.050  136.1  41.0  20.2
2012 03 18 000000 08 52 04.3 +04 45 27   0.070   1.046  135.1  42.2  20.1
2012 03 19 000000 08 51 50.0 +04 41 23   0.066   1.042  134.1  43.3  20.0
2012 03 20 000000 08 51 39.7 +04 36 35   0.061   1.039  133.1  44.4  19.8
2012 03 21 000000 08 51 34.2 +04 30 54   0.056   1.035  132.1  45.5  19.7
2012 03 22 000000 08 51 34.2 +04 24 04   0.052   1.031  131.2  46.6  19.5
2012 03 23 000000 08 51 40.8 +04 15 44   0.047   1.028  130.3  47.7  19.3
2012 03 24 000000 08 51 55.8 +04 05 25   0.042   1.025  129.4  48.7  19.1
2012 03 25 000000 08 52 21.5 +03 52 24   0.038   1.021  128.6  49.7  18.9
2012 03 26 000000 08 53 01.5 +03 35 33   0.033   1.018  127.8  50.7  18.6
2012 03 27 000000 08 54 01.9 +03 13 01   0.029   1.015  127.2  51.5  18.3
2012 03 28 000000 08 55 33.2 +02 41 30   0.024   1.013  126.7  52.2  17.9
2012 03 29 000000 08 57 56.2 +01 54 35   0.019   1.010  126.4  52.7  17.5
2012 03 30 000000 09 01 57.6 +00 37 50   0.015   1.008  126.6  52.7  16.9
2012 03 31 000000 09 09 49.5 -01 49 31   0.010   1.005  127.8  51.7  16.0
2012 04 01 000000 09 31 03.7 -08 19 24   0.0056  1.003  132.4  47.4  14.6
2012 04 02 000000 12 32 30.0 -44 17 27   0.0018  1.001  140.5  39.4  12.0
2012 04 03 000000 19 47 52.8 -21 53 26   0.0044  0.999   78.6 101.2  16.0

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Orbital elements:
2012 EG5                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0005 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M 350.11680              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.31668849     Peri.   13.57552     -0.88676171     +0.46210344
a   2.1316433      Node   193.96226     -0.42811092     -0.82980533
e   0.5359950      Incl.    2.53719     -0.17428341     -0.31286342
P   3.11           H   24.1           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2012 - E52

The 40 - 89 metre wide asteroid 2012 EG5 will make a close pass (0.7 lunar distances, 0.0017 AU), travelling at 8.24 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 2nd April, 2012 @ 01:58 UT ±2 days 14:22.

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