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Post Info TOPIC: Asteroid 2012 VK5


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RE: Asteroid 2012 VK5
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The 30 - 66 metre wide asteroid 2012 VK5 will make a close pass (43.6 lunar distances, 0.1121 AU), travelling at 5.44 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th November, 2012 @ 01:01 UT ±04:03. 

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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 VK5                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0484 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 183.48069              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   1.08644354     Peri.  152.45668     -0.96591105     +0.25256428
a   0.9371259      Node    42.29877     -0.25032348     -0.85530665
e   0.2298507      Incl.    4.84212     -0.06598491     -0.45239566
P   0.91           H   24.8           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2012 - V19



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