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The 91 - 200 metre wide asteroid 2013 AQ72 made a close pass (55.9 lunar distances, 0.1436 AU), travelling at 7.22 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 4th February, 2013 @ 04:39 UT ±00:33. 

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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 AQ72                                                Earth MOID = 0.1163 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 327.34585              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.25137899     Peri.  202.59800     -0.68644917     -0.71330335
a   2.4864710      Node   291.07870     +0.68818923     -0.57444576
e   0.5621243      Incl.    8.71440     +0.23491089     -0.40151015
P   3.92           H   22.2           G   0.15           U   8

MPEC 2013 - A90

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