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Post Info TOPIC: Asteroid 2012 VC26


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RE: Asteroid 2012 VC26
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The 5 - 10 metre wide asteroid 2012 VC26 will make a close pass (2.3 lunar distances, 0.0059 AU), travelling at 5.36 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th November, 2012 @ 22:14 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 VC26                                                Earth MOID = 0.0031 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 219.78418              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   1.07440098     Peri.  121.18887     -0.96610112     -0.25738931
a   0.9441155      Node    43.90476     +0.22597202     -0.88052800
e   0.1962298      Incl.    1.65138     +0.12484098     -0.39802160
P   0.92           H   28.8           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2012 - V53



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