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The 68 - 150 metre wide asteroid 2012 GC2 will make a close pass (18.2 lunar distances, 0.0467 AU), travelling at 11.79 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 23rd April, 2012 @ 11:02 UT ±00:19.

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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 GC2                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0453 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M 310.20265              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.56151375     Peri.   70.53691     +0.05965912     +0.99439312
a   1.4551099      Node   203.40911     -0.97832133     +0.04086917
e   0.3943397      Incl.   12.69512     -0.19831329     +0.09752970
P   1.76           H   23.0           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2012 - G37



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