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The 170 - 370 metre wide asteroid 2012 TF53 made a close pass (39.1 lunar distances, 0.1006 AU), travelling at 6.44 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 25th February, 2013 @ 10:20 UT ±00:02. 

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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 TF53                                           PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0469 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 290.82335              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.57743176     Peri.  282.19366     -0.54842403     -0.83530922
a   1.4282435      Node   201.20372     +0.80269616     -0.51295502
e   0.3705054      Incl.    6.12565     +0.23432873     -0.19782733
P   1.71           H   21.3           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2012 - T43



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