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The 22 - 49 metre wide asteroid 2012 KB4 will make a close pass (49.4 lunar distances, 0.1271 AU), travelling at 4.98 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 14th October, 2012 @ 21:54 UT ±00:04. 

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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 KB4                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0712 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M 208.30205              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.86332534     Peri.  277.75812     +0.92434988     +0.36906384
a   1.0923280      Node    60.62885     -0.29140537     +0.84663641
e   0.0599918      Incl.    6.37709     -0.24629295     +0.38340405
P   1.14           H   25.4           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2012 - K22

The 22 - 49 metre wide asteroid 2012 KB4 will make a close pass (35.2 lunar distances, 0.0904 AU), travelling at 3.44 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 27th May, 2012 @ 09:06 UT ±00:41. 

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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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