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RE: Asteroid 2012 TD79
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The 34 - 76 metre wide asteroid 2012 TD79 will make a close pass (7.2 lunar distances, 0.0185 AU), travelling at 14.69 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 18th October, 2012 @ 23:53 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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Orbital elements:
2012 TD79                                                Earth MOID = 0.0184 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 338.38121              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.35341257     Peri.  249.58394     +0.02772012     -0.99855676
a   1.9812900      Node   199.00302     +0.96171367     +0.03919236
e   0.5959492      Incl.    8.12131     +0.27265073     -0.03671994
P   2.79           H   24.4           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2012 - T56



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