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The 120 - 270 metre wide asteroid 2012 TH79 will make a close pass (54.1 lunar distances, 0.1390 AU), travelling at 9.25 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 5th December, 2012 @ 17:43 UT ±21:12. 

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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 TH79                                                Earth MOID = 0.0774 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 342.71348              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.23411398     Peri.  287.86324     +0.09313973     -0.99424828
a   2.6072609      Node   156.59886     +0.95646660     +0.07459669
e   0.6464849      Incl.    7.64996     +0.27658025     +0.07684849
P   4.21           H   21.8           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2012 - T60



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