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Post Info TOPIC: Asteroid 2012 MQ3


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RE: Asteroid 2012 MQ3
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The 98 - 220 metre wide asteroid 2012 MQ3 will make a close pass (63.4 lunar distances, 0.1630 AU), travelling at 5.20 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 12th July, 2012 @ 15:44 UT ±00:36. 

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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 MQ3                                                 Earth MOID = 0.1186 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5                 MPC
M 281.56569              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.61836521     Peri.   31.20924     +0.52479474     +0.83956986
a   1.3644973      Node   270.79135     -0.80707075     +0.43832087
e   0.1777049      Incl.    8.07193     -0.27060540     +0.32093187
P   1.59           H   22.2           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2012 - M31



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