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Asteroid 2006 WJ3
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The 270 - 590 metre wide asteroid 2006 WJ3 will make a close pass (63.4 lunar distances, 0.1628 AU), travelling at 11.57 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 26th October, 2013 @ 04:54 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:
2006 WJ3                                            PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0201 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M 105.20575              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.42487454     Peri.  178.40144     +0.62807432     -0.74913491
a   1.7523825      Node   232.63203     +0.71097019     +0.66241596
e   0.4244390      Incl.   15.36039     +0.31629738     -0.00140883
P   2.32           H   20.0           G   0.15           U   0

MPEC 2012 - H93



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