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Post Info TOPIC: Asteroid 2012 QF42


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RE: Asteroid 2012 QF42
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The 140 - 300 metre wide asteroid 2012 QF42 will make a close pass (42.8 lunar distances, 0.1099 AU), travelling at 8.69 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 27th September, 2012 @ 15:41 UT ±00:25. 

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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 QF42                                                Earth MOID = 0.0879 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 355.48687              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.26479123     Peri.  236.67036     +0.86226970     -0.50489868
a   2.4017823      Node   153.58986     +0.48920886     +0.81013727
e   0.5629120      Incl.    5.10802     +0.13101774     +0.29791765
P   3.72           H   21.4           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2012 - Q71



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