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The 210 - 460 metre wide asteroid 2012 HS15 will make a close pass (70.2 lunar distances, 0.1804 AU), travelling at 11.54 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 14th August, 2012 @ 11:07 UT ±00:01. 

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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 HS15                                                Earth MOID = 0.0711 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M 317.62055              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.31402274     Peri.  155.63201     +0.37976759     +0.91937716
a   2.1436900      Node   136.49104     -0.87132310     +0.39274199
e   0.5007167      Incl.    8.56865     -0.31076139     +0.02234667
P   3.14           H   20.4           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2012 - H66



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