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The 22 - 49 metre wide asteroid 2012 WH will make a close pass (61.3 lunar distances, 0.1576 AU), travelling at 3.09 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 4th March, 2013 @ 17:25 UT ±02:28. 

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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 WH                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0339 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 114.10919              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   1.13937364     Peri.    8.18616     -0.44528647     +0.89350270
a   0.9078734      Node   235.39086     -0.82544750     -0.43477095
e   0.1437921      Incl.    4.04632     -0.34692418     -0.11237056
P   0.87           H   25.6           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2012 - W15



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