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RE: Asteroid 2012 VB5
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The 16 - 35 metre wide asteroid 2012 VB5 will make a close pass (4.7 lunar distances, 0.0120 AU), travelling at 16.88 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 9th November, 2012 @ 11:06 UT ±00:01. 

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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 VB5                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0120 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 332.63697              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.32580659     Peri.  257.83748     -0.47076431     -0.87987143
a   2.0916843      Node   220.45298     +0.84334897     -0.42719176
e   0.6518517      Incl.    5.73747     +0.25912058     -0.20816693
P   3.03           H   26.1           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2012 - V11



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