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Asteroid 2012 FD1
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The 70 - 160 metre wide asteroid 2012 FD1 will make a close pass (33.1 lunar distances, 0.0852 AU), travelling at 7.37 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 3rd May, 2012 @ 05:58 UT ±03:58.

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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 FD1                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0847 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M 337.14245              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.35034835     Peri.   64.04974     -0.51139765     +0.85929831
a   1.9928258      Node   175.16516     -0.82131123     -0.48569784
e   0.4853560      Incl.    6.04789     -0.25282467     -0.16032474
P   2.81           H   23.2           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2012 - F36



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