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The 26 - 58 metre wide asteroid 2012 WM28 will make a close pass (12.4 lunar distances, 0.0319 AU), travelling at 5.69 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 30th November, 2012 @ 00:36 UT ±00:07. 

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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 WM28                                                Earth MOID = 0.0323 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 305.45691              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.73605283     Peri.   15.06251     +0.14577138     -0.97650584
a   1.2148707      Node    66.76331     +0.88889344     +0.05885585
e   0.1656243      Incl.    9.94568     +0.43430306     +0.20729769
P   1.34           H   25.1           G   0.15           U   6

MPEC 2012 - W52



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