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The 17 - 38 metre wide asteroid 2013 AC4 made a close pass (2.6 lunar distances, 0.0068 AU), travelling at 20.09 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 30th December, 2012 @ 06:18 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:
2013 AC4                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0034 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 335.89872              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.59077605     Peri.  254.62658     +0.99695966     +0.05718824
a   1.4066546      Node   102.07319     -0.03233117     +0.92159322
e   0.6244854      Incl.    3.10242     -0.07089524     +0.38392114
P   1.67           H   26.0           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2013 - A18

Key to Orbital elements



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