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The 30 - 67 metre wide asteroid 2012 JA will make a close pass (18.7 lunar distances, 0.0480 AU), travelling at 12.66 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 10th May, 2012 @ 19:00 UT ±00:14. 

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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 JA                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0095 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M 330.07193              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.32405197     Peri.  234.83584     +0.12595950     +0.99168608
a   2.0992280      Node    42.42459     -0.89701539     +0.12518693
e   0.5600387      Incl.    2.23623     -0.42367157     +0.02978175
P   3.04           H   24.7           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2012 - J09



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