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Google earth file: Asteroid 2012 KA.kmz (16kb, kmz)

Ephemeris

Date       UT      R.A. (J2000) Decl.    Delta     r     El.    Ph.   V 
2012 05 17 000000 15 51 11.0 +17 32 08   0.0067  1.017  142.9  36.8  19.5
2012 05 18 000000 05 05 50.0 -83 51 02   0.0020  1.012  103.8  76.1  17.9
2012 05 19 000000 03 55 47.5 -41 05 13   0.0090  1.007   60.9 118.6  23.3
2012 05 20 000000 03 54 43.0 -36 27 53   0.017   1.003   56.5 122.7  25.0
2012 05 21 000000 03 54 21.2 -34 44 25   0.024   0.998   54.9 123.9  25.9
2012 05 22 000000 03 54 10.1 -33 49 40   0.032   0.994   54.2 124.3  26.5
2012 05 23 000000 03 54 03.4 -33 15 04   0.040   0.990   53.9 124.3  27.0


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Orbital elements:
2012 KA                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0015 AU
Epoch 2012 May 13.0 TT = JDT 2456060.5                  MPC
M 332.91950              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.56833294     Peri.  233.51378     +0.31687614     +0.91193284
a   1.4434470      Node    56.99105     -0.74001338     +0.40964357
e   0.3755869      Incl.   18.11280     -0.59327035     -0.02388787
P   1.73           H   28.8           G   0.15
From 12 observations 2012 May 16-16.

MPEC 2012 - K02

The 4 - 10 metre wide asteroid 2012 KA will make a close pass (0.6 lunar distances, 0.0015 AU), travelling at 13.63 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th May, 2012 @ 19:43 UT ±00:21. 

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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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