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The 36 - 80 metre wide asteroid 2003 BN4 made a close pass (27.6 lunar distances, 0.0709 AU), travelling at 3.22 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 4th February, 2013 @ 06:02 UT ±00:01. 

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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:
2003 BN4                                                 Earth MOID = 0.0700 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 267.94313              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.68939952     Peri.  192.87500     -0.77160257     -0.63141043
a   1.2690792      Node   307.69873     +0.59191550     -0.66829199
e   0.1706526      Incl.    5.59470     +0.23294960     -0.39332771
P   1.43           H   24.1           G   0.15           U   1

MPEC 2013 - A53

Key to Orbital Elements



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