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Asteroid 2012 VD37
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Orbital elements:
2012 VD37                                                Earth MOID = 0.1028 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 311.24699              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.67682545     Peri.  211.58778     +0.25671117     -0.93140131
a   1.2847489      Node   225.04522     +0.94522442     +0.29764759
e   0.1655505      Incl.   21.38625     +0.20161888     -0.20951734
P   1.46           H   25.7           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2012 - V67

The 19 - 43 metre wide asteroid 2012 VD37 made a close pass (40.4 lunar distances, 0.1038 AU), travelling at 11.34 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 9th November, 2012 @ 12:30 UT ±02:45. 

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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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