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The 10 - 23 metre wide asteroid 2013 BM18 made a close pass (2.3 lunar distances, 0.0060 AU), travelling at 8.96 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 14th January, 2013 @ 22:39 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:
2013 BM18                                                Earth MOID = 0.0065 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5                MPC
M 322.96777              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.45597199     Peri.  325.65999     +0.12441619     -0.98390377
a   1.6717729      Node   116.89082     +0.93957742     +0.07527234
e   0.4376796      Incl.    8.26924     +0.31892770     +0.16207234
P   2.16           H   27.0           G   0.15           U   7

MPEC 2013 - B39

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