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RE: Asteroid 2005 WD
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The 120 - 270 metre wide asteroid 2005 WD will make a close pass (14.1 lunar distances, 0.0363 AU), travelling at 16.87 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th November, 2012 @ 12:29 UT ħ00:01. 

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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:
2005 WD                                             PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0364 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 353.07437              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.28166990     Peri.  160.67504     +0.85426760     -0.40473736
a   2.3048487      Node   227.76310     +0.39979321     +0.91262301
e   0.5630454      Incl.   26.14256     +0.33225330     -0.05750572
P   3.50           H   21.6           G   0.15           U   1

MPEC 2012 - V22



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