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The 480 - 1100 metre wide asteroid 2012 KM45 will make a close pass (39.5 lunar distances, 0.1015 AU), travelling at 20.05 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 5th July, 2012 @ 20:24 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 KM45                                                Earth MOID = 0.0681 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M 333.35798              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.28122312     Peri.  158.69719     -0.23216016     +0.84895723
a   2.3072892      Node    95.28593     -0.94704876     -0.08599079
e   0.6006545      Incl.   28.47417     -0.22181144     -0.52141845
P   3.50           H   18.5           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2012 - L03

The 530 - 1200 metre wide asteroid 2012 KM45 will make a close pass (40.4 lunar distances, 0.1038 AU), travelling at 20.25 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 6th July, 2012 @ 01:59 UT ±06:49. 

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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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