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RE: Asteroid 2012 XA
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The 27 - 60 metre wide asteroid 2012 XA will make a close pass (14.6 lunar distances, 0.0374 AU), travelling at 4.69 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 12th December, 2012 @ 08:39 UT ±00:26. 

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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 XA                                                  Earth MOID = 0.0379 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 304.88550              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.61555946     Peri.  208.73926     -0.13762293     -0.98560233
a   1.3686405      Node   249.31490     +0.92765177     -0.09349916
e   0.2649689      Incl.    6.02673     +0.34716296     -0.14087568
P   1.60           H   25.0           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2012 - X06



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