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The 13 - 28 metre wide asteroid 2012 VA26 will make a close pass (65.3 lunar distances, 0.1678 AU) travelling at 8.23 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 22nd January 2015 @ 10:23 UT ±2 days 01:54. 

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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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The 12 - 28 metre wide asteroid 2012 VA26 will make a close pass (5.1 lunar distances, 0.0131 AU), travelling at 10.14 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 9th November, 2012 @ 17:29 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 VA26                                                Earth MOID = 0.0130 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 323.72553              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.48041107     Peri.   47.93981     -0.02397656     -0.99241489
a   1.6145843      Node    43.88375     +0.85816540     -0.08229843
e   0.4356660      Incl.   10.01682     +0.51281310     +0.09132172
P   2.05           H   26.6           G   0.15           U   6

MPEC 2012 - V51



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