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The 20 - 45 metre wide asteroid 2012 HB2 made a close pass (11.4 lunar distances, 0.0294 AU), travelling at 3.47 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 20th April, 2012 @ 12:14 UT ±02:15.

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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 HB2                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0271 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M 338.33375              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.60070927     Peri.  141.29539     -0.86998953     +0.49238262
a   1.3911047      Node    68.22067     -0.45906931     -0.78960348
e   0.2612762      Incl.    1.60626     -0.17992659     -0.36617715
P   1.64           H   25.6           G   0.15           U   6

MPEC 2012 - H31



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