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Post Info TOPIC: Asteroid 2012 TJ79


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RE: Asteroid 2012 TJ79
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The 57 - 130 metre wide asteroid 2012 TJ79 will make a close pass (50.6 lunar distances, 0.1299 AU), travelling at 7.25 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 24th October, 2012 @ 12:31 UT ±1 day 15:36. 

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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 TJ79                                                Earth MOID = 0.1125 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 327.95110              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.51005222     Peri.  241.44737     +0.35434155     -0.93468250
a   1.5514089      Node   187.95871     +0.91364429     +0.35253217
e   0.3482153      Incl.   11.86689     +0.19923901     +0.04571313
P   1.93           H   23.4           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2012 - T61



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