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Post Info TOPIC: Asteroid 2012 VN82


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RE: Asteroid 2012 VN82
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The 270 - 610 metre wide asteroid 2012 VN82 will make a close pass (71.7 lunar distances, 0.1843 AU), travelling at 12.09 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 22nd May, 2013 @ 20:42 UT ±00:04. 

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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 VN82                                                Earth MOID = 0.1188 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 256.66109              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.50368774     Peri.  330.85014     -0.93557483     +0.32865986
a   1.5644504      Node   228.92896     -0.28161720     -0.91508870
e   0.5167097      Incl.    9.86482     -0.21305280     -0.23365653
P   1.96           H   19.9           G   0.15           U   9

MPEC 2012 - W16



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