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Asteroid 2012 SD22

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Update:
The 260 - 580 metre wide asteroid 2012 SD22 will make a close pass (67.7 lunar distances, 0.1739 AU), travelling at 10.77 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 10th December, 2012 @ 01:59 UT ±00:01.

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 SD22                                           PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0157 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 330.85448              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.35768424     Peri.  313.47509     -0.07186662     -0.99361084
a   1.9654840      Node   140.39739     +0.94999015     -0.09477140
e   0.5729417      Incl.    7.84609     +0.30389786     +0.06128521
P   2.76           H   20.0           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2012 - S51

The 260 - 590 metre wide asteroid 2012 SD22 will make a close pass (67.9 lunar distances, 0.1744 AU), travelling at 10.83 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 9th December, 2012 @ 05:42 UT ±23:19.

The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).