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RE: Asteroid 2012 TE79
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The 12 - 26 metre wide asteroid 2012 TE79 will make a close pass (5.7 lunar distances, 0.0147 AU), travelling at 9.61 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th October, 2012 @ 18:18 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 TE79                                                Earth MOID = 0.0123 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 333.54744              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.47641116     Peri.   60.25870     +0.27694366     -0.96079078
a   1.6236089      Node    13.68349     +0.86065000     +0.24176385
e   0.4481627      Incl.    3.28084     +0.42729823     +0.13576199
P   2.07           H   26.7           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2012 - T57



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