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Asteroid 2012 HK
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Orbital elements:
2012 HK                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0520 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M 346.48364              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.54783153     Peri.  349.85955     -0.95505738     +0.26484075
a   1.4792379      Node   206.68229     -0.24694698     -0.95931853
e   0.2885715      Incl.   17.24660     -0.16395910     -0.09781277
P   1.80           H   23.5           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2012 - H11

The 53 - 120 metre wide asteroid 2012 HK made a close pass (21.4 lunar distances, 0.0549 AU), travelling at 9.96 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 16th April, 2012 @ 19:39 UT ±00:11.

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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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