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Post Info TOPIC: Asteroid 2012 VD6


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RE: Asteroid 2012 VD6
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The 20 - 45 metre wide asteroid 2012 VD6 will make a close pass (28.0 lunar distances, 0.0720 AU), travelling at 6.24 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st November, 2012 @ 22:12 UT ±00:10. 

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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 VD6                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0597 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 306.48434              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.63171453     Peri.  224.63703     -0.02536977     -0.99103836
a   1.3452060      Node   227.29186     +0.95982287     +0.01252560
e   0.2557707      Incl.   10.28091     +0.27945738     -0.13298904
P   1.56           H   25.6           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2012 - V24



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