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Asteroid 2012 PA
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Orbital elements:
2012 PA                                                  Earth MOID = 0.1478 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M  69.24502              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.61638762     Peri.   14.88676     -0.99501862     +0.09406298
a   1.3674143      Node   170.32844     -0.09894833     -0.97218816
e   0.7058261      Incl.   11.33398     +0.01213148     -0.21448155
P   1.60           H   20.2           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2012 - P08

The 250 - 550 metre wide asteroid 2012 PA made a close pass (63.3 lunar distances, 0.1627 AU), travelling at 25.48 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 29th July, 2012 @ 10:58 UT ±00:11. 

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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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