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Post Info TOPIC: Asteroid 2012 XK16


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RE: Asteroid 2012 XK16
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The 86 - 190 metre wide asteroid 2012 XK16 made a close pass (26.1 lunar distances, 0.0670 AU), travelling at 13.28 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 3rd December, 2012 @ 10:32 UT ±00:03. 

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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 XK16                                                Earth MOID = 0.0673 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 357.12953              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.77961773     Peri.  110.21208     +0.92125123     -0.06349990
a   1.1691805      Node   255.00711     -0.04650421     +0.96152676
e   0.1889532      Incl.   23.40786     +0.38617811     +0.26727149
P   1.26           H   22.4           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2012 - X28



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